As anticipation builds for CES 2023, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) held a virtual press conference highlighting record post-pandemic sales and continued momentum that, if held today, make CES 2023 50% bigger than CES 2022.
Carbon nanomaterial developer Canatu (Vantaa, Finland) and global manufacturer of polymer materials and components Covestro, will showcase a joint LiDAR heater demonstrator at the Canatu booth 4271 / West Hall during CES 2023. The companies are bringing together leading expertise in flexible transparent film heaters, thermoplastic polymers and film insert moulding processing to showcase a state-of-the-art LiDAR cover lens with heating functionality that is highly performant, versatile, and ready for scale-up.
Printed electronics is so thin, lightweight, and flexible that the technology is an enabler for many high-tech applications in the first place. This is also the case for the megatrend of Smart Living, which is right at the top of the LOPEC 2023 (28 February – 2 March 2023; Messe Munich) agenda, as Dr Klaus Hecker, managing director of the LOPEC co-organiser OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association), an international working group within VDMA, explains: “At LOPEC, we can see how flexible and printed electronics is not only increasingly gaining ground in consumer electronics and for buildings, but also in medicine and the sports sector.”
