From left: Dr Paolo Bavaj, corporate director, New Business Development, Henkel, Armin Senne, flexo business manager at ContiTech, and Dr Thomas Perković, head of printing blanket segment at ContiTech
Henkel Adhesive Technologies from Düsseldorf, Germany, and ContiTech Elastomer Coatings (Hannover, Germany) will now be working more closely together in the fields of functional printing and printed electronics. The two companies made an announcement concerning the agreement in question at the printing trade show drupa in Düsseldorf. The aim is to develop products that can be produced using cost-effective roll-to-roll processing in flexographic and other printing processes.
Sun Chemical Advanced Materials (Parsippany (NJ), USA) and its parent company, the DIC Corporation, have opened a new European Polyphenylene Sulfide (PPS) Technical Centre in Karlstein, near Frankfurt in Germany. The new laboratory, an extension of Sun Chemical’s Eurolab, enables the DIC Group to provide enhanced and more localised expert technical support to its European and American customers of DIC.PPS, an industry-leading compound developed by the DIC Corporation.
Canatu, a leading manufacturer of next-generation flexible and 3D formable transparent conductive films and touch sensors based in Helsinki, Finland, cooperates with the Taiwanese company E Ink, a renowned innovator of electronic paper display technology (EPD).
