Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG (Heidelberg, Germany) has set up a dedicated business unit for the industrial development, manufacture, and sale of printed and organic electronics. The company has also started production at its Wiesloch-Walldorf site, investing some €5M in a complete production line for printed sensors. Sensors developed at InnovationLab (iL) in Heidelberg for use in dental technology are set to be printed first.
CrowdScan, a spin-off from imec and the University of Antwerp in Belgium, has developed a system that measures the density of a crowd in real-time using a wireless sensor network.
After the cancellation of LOPEC 2020, Messe Munich has come up with a new format that aims at connecting the printed electronics community in the age of the corona pandemic, where personal contacts are limited and rare.
