In the Startup category, the HyPrint (Heidelberg, Germany) team around founders Andreas Laib and Richard Leys prevailed against strong competition from a wide range of industries. From a combination of jury points and online voting, the winner was announced on 24 September at the European Forum on the Rhine in Neuried.
A consortium of Fraunhofer institutes and well-known German industrial companies is developing a split-manufacturing approach for semiconductor production in the project "Distributed Manufacturing for Novel and Trustworthy Electronics T4T". This will enable the secure assembly of subsystems in Germany and safeguard supply chains.
On 14 and 15 September 2022, TNO at Holst Centre in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, hosted the kick-off of the ECOTRON project, which has been set up to reach a sustainable electronics production process through hybrid printed electronics. In short, ECOTRON aims to create more sustainable electronics by using printing and dismantling techniques that allow low-energy production processes and a circular build-up of materials that are potentially of ‘renewable’ or compostable origin.
