LOPEC, the world's leading trade fair and conference for flexible, organic and printed electronics, is becoming a meeting place for sustainability. From 28 February to 2 March, innovations from the world of green electronics will be on display at Messe München's ICM. The topic is also increasingly coming into focus on the conference agenda, as Dr Chloé Bois, general manager of the Printability and Graphic Communications Institute in Québec, Canada, and vice chair North America of the OE-A Board, emphasises. OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association) is the co-organiser of LOPEC. In this interview, she talks about the challenges of green and printed electronics.
Pragmatic Semiconductor (Cambridge, UK), a world leader in flexible electronics, has secured $35 million additional investment from high quality institutional investors. This brings the total raised in its Series C round to $125 million, oversubscribing the original target by more than 50%. Investors have been attracted by the massive potential for Pragmatic’s unique, flexible integrated circuits to replace mainstream silicon chips, as well as to enable trillions of smart items in applications that would never be possible with silicon.
E Ink (Billerica, Massachusetts), a global commercial leader in digital paper technology, has launched E Ink Prism 3, a next generation segmented display that features dynamic colour changing capabilities. Prism 3 offers product designers to choose from eight colours and combine them with patterns to create rich, dynamic surfaces.
