Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm), Oslo, Norway, recently announced that it has completed the acquisition of Kovio, Inc., San Jose, USA, technology, intellectual property, and manufacturing assets, and has opened the Thinfilm NFC Innovation Center in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Kateeva, a company focused on the manufacturing of inkjet printing systems for the production of OLEDs, recently announced an expansion of its Korea operation by absorbing the assets of Seoul-based OLED Plus Co. Ltd., an OLED equipment design, sales, service and support company headed by industry veteran Kyung Bin Bae.
AIXTRON SE, a German supplier of deposition systems to the semiconductor industry, and Manz AG, a Germany based specialist engineering company, recently agreed on a strategic cooperation. Both partners will be working on further developing solutions for use in efficient OLED production.
