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BASF Future Business GmbH, a 100 percent subsidiary of BASF Aktiengesellschaft, was founded in April 2001. It aims to open up new business areas with above-average growth rates for the BASF group. Working closely with internal R&D-units as well as external cooperation partners to develop products, solutions, and new business models, the company focuses on areas such as energy, electronics and health. Through its subsidiary, BASF Venture Capital GmbH, it provides startup companies with capital to support their development.

DuPont Microcircuit Materials has 40 years of experience in the development, manufacture and sale of specialised ink compositions for a wide variety of electronic applications in the display, photovoltaic, automotive, biomedical, industrial and telecommunications markets. This division holds a lead position in these markets with a success based on DuPont's close working relationship with its customers and a comprehensive worldwide support infrastructure.

 

Utilising core expertise such as materials science, chemistry and fine particle technology, the inks are used on a wide variety of substrates, rigid and flexible, and are suitable for many new Printed Electronics applications.

H.C. Starck is an international group of companies with more than 3,400 employees at production sites in Europe, North America and the Far East. Widely known for its technology in refractory metals and ceramics, H.C. Starck has been a member of the Bayer Group since 1986. In 2006 H.C. Starck was sold to an investors consortium formed by Advent International and The Carlyle Group. H.C. Starck produces an assortment of refractory metal powders that is unique in the world, including tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium, rhenium as well as their compounds and chemicals for the electronics industry.

HC Starck provides technical solutions in innovative technologies with its transparent conductive polymer Baytron® P (PEDOT:PSS). Baytron is commercially used in capacitor, OLED, antistatic and various printed electronics applications. HC Starck will spotlight emerging high conductive Baytron materials and formulations at the conference.

www.hcstarck.com and www.baytron.com

Optomec® is the world-leading provider of additive manufacturing systems for high-performance applications in the Electronics, Photovoltaic, and Aerospace & Defense markets. Optomec's M3D® Aerosol Jet Deposition System is a breakthrough additive technology enabling finer feature sizes than traditional ink-jetting and screen printing processes. The M3D system utilizes an innovative aerodynamic focusing technology that produces electronic and physical structures with feature sizes down to 10 microns. The M3D system supports a wide variety of materials including nanoparticle inks and screen-printing pastes, conductive polymers, insulators, adhesives, and even biological matter that can be accurately deposited by M3D onto non-planar substrates.

 

M3D is a registered trademark of Optomec, Inc.

Light. Power. Circuitry.

 

Plextronics, Inc. is a leading innovator of technology for printed electronics. The printed electronics market comprises next-generation light, power and circuitry products, including flexible displays, plastic solar cells and organic RFID tags.

 

With a company vision of enabling 15 billion printed electronic devices by 2015, Plextronics is creating technology capable of commercial-scale performance and manufacturability. The company's device design, process technology and Plexcore® branded inks enable the formation of active electrical layers ・the key drivers of printed electronics.

For more information about Plextronics, visit www.plextronics.com.

Trident is a leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of piezoelectric ink jet printheads and inks. Trident was one of the pioneers of industrial ink jet in the early 1980's jetting both liquid inks and hot melt inks. Today, Trident products are used in a variety of applications that require rugged, inert, stainless steel printheads for printing or accurately dispensing fluids reliably and frequently. Trident's printheads are unique in their ability to be disassembled, cleaned and reassembled enabling long life and high degree of return on investment.

 

Trident printheads are marketed worldwide through original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the carton coding, postal coding, flat panel display manufacturing, printable electronics, wide format printing and digital textile printing markets. OEMs integrate Trident printheads into computer-controlled, application-specific products or systems which are then sold to end users.

 

Trident's development, manufacturing and administrative headquarters is located in Brookfield, Connecticut, USA. The company also has regional offices in Japan and Ireland.

3D-Micromac AG, a leading supplier of customized laser micromachining systems, has gained an established position in the international market over the past several years. As a developer and manufacturer of complex workstations, as a service provider for materials and surface machining or as a solution provider for the development of specific production processes - we are able to find the best solution for every customer's task. Our portfolio is subdivided into the following divisions: High End Laser Systems - High End Laser Applications - High End Laser Tools - High End Laser Services. Our customers appreciate the long lasting experience with all types of lasers used in research and industry.

Agfa Materials has a leading position in producing film and related products at low cost for the graphical and healthcare industry. Agfa Materials holds a strong position in niche markets such as PCB, Aerial, and Cine-film. In the business of 'e-consumables' (Identity and Safety documents - ORGACON Electronic Materials) AGFA Materials commercializes conductive polymer based products (ORGACONTM) as inks, films and coating solutions.

ARDEJE has a strong knowledge and background in DOD inkjet printing. We design and manufacture custom-built print engines based on our customers' specifications by integrating piezoelectric printheads for industrial applications based on DOD inkjet technology. Several print engines have been manufactured for graphic art applications. Now, we want to take advantage of our 10-year inkjet printing expertise for developing opportunities and new markets in printed electronics. ARDEJE is pioneering this field since 2001 with successful partners and we recently increase our R&D activities to provide technological innovative solutions for printed electronics applications. These developments are supported by our involvement in European and French scientific and technology development projects in microelectronics, smart textiles, solar cells, ... Furthermore, ARDEJE supplies technological and experimental products and services for print quality optimization. Based on our vision expertise, ARDEJE has developed laboratory equipments for drop formation and impact observations and analysis.

 

Ciba is a leading global company dedicated to producing high-value effects for its customers' products. We create effects that improve the quality of life - adding performance, protection, color and strength to plastics, paper, automobiles, buildings, home and personal care products and much more. Ciba brings new and creative thought to the processes and products of our customers in more than 120 countries.

FUJIFILM Dimatix, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of FUJIFILM Corporation, is a leading developer and manufacturer of high-performance ink jet printheads and components used in a broad range of industrial, non-impact imaging applications. The company is evolving jetting technology into a production process that lowers the cost, time and environmental impact of producing electronic circuits and functions for RFID tags, flat panel displays, circuit boards and other electronic and bioscience applications. FUJIFILM Dimatix products are designed to accurately dispense a wide range of fluid types in micro-amounts for demanding imaging and fabricating applications. With more than 20 years advancing the performance of drop-on-demand dispensing devices and applications, FUJIFILM Dimatix is the only developer and manufacturer in this industry with the technology, know-how, and creativity to lead the industry into the future.

Enfucell was founded in June 2002 after a decade of research on power sources for low power applications at the Automation Laboratory of The Helsinki University of Technology. The company's main product is the SoftBattery・ a flexible and thin battery made of low cost industrial environmentally friendly materials that are disposable with other household waste. The main fields of the SoftBattery・applications are in RFID/logistics, cosmetics, and medical industry.

ImageXpert Inc. is a leader in part inspection systems and tools for electronic imaging. Manufacturers rely on ImageXpert systems in R&D and in production. We have expertise in a wide range of printing technologies and have a long history of providing machine-vision based image quality measurement and part inspection systems to imaging companies worldwide. Our hardware configurations include 2-D camera-based systems, 3-D laser height profiling systems, and line scan camera-based systems, all of which use the same software to produce objective, repeatable data.

Invest in Germany is the inward investment promotion agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. We assist and advise international companies about investment opportunities in Germany. Our experts provide comprehensive project management and support services from site selection to the final realization of the investment. All inquiries will be kept confidential and our services are free of charge.

ISRA VISION provides in-line surface inspection systems that provide 100% inspection of printed, patterned, and un-printed materials. For printed electronics applications, the system inspects 100% of each repeat and detects defects to include mis-registration, shorts, opens, cracks, "mouse-bites", and substrate defects. Defects are classified by type and the location of each defect is mapped. Continuous web (reel to reel) or sheets can be inspected. ISRA is a global acting company and the leader in surface inspection with over 400 employees committed to providing in-line 100% inspection solutions for process improvement and quality assurance.

imaging Technology international Corporation (iTi) is a leading industrial inkjet integrator. Established in 1992, headquartered in Boulder, CO with its European office in Cambridge UK, iTi designs, develops and manufactures digital fabrication systems that incorporate inkjet technology. iTi is recognised as the pre-eminent supplier of development tools for the inkjet industry, which include our Drop Watcher and highly precise XY Materials Deposition Systems. In partnership with Printed Electronics Ltd, iTi is establishing an Inkjet Development Lab in Cambridge. The lab will open in summer 2007 on an 'open access' basis and will include a suite of inkjet development tools from iTi.

Transparent Silver Inks, developed by InkTec with patented technology, are Ag-based conducting inks suitable to RFID Tag, PCB, reflective film, display, and EMI shielding, etc. Differently from other prior conductive inks based on nano-technology, InkTec inks are purely transparent silver inks which are not formulated by particle structure. The inks are stable even in long-term storage and applicable to various substrates because they enable ink sintering in low temperature for conductive trace. According to our business plan for electronic materials, it was completed the 2nd plant in March 2007 and this plant will be occupied by electromagnetic manufacturing facilities.

Headquartered in Buffalo, N.Y., NanoDynamics, Inc. develops and commercializes technologies, materials and products that provide clean technology solutions, with a principal focus on the application of nanotechnology-enabled solutions in the energy, environment, and infrastructure markets.

Pall Corporation provides filtration, separation and purification technologies to the semiconductor, fine chemical and digital printing markets. Our leading technologies enable faster processing, better performance and less waste. In addition, Pall offers a wide range of laboratory filtration equipment for process optimization.

PolyIC produces printed electronics in a high-speed printing process. Printed electronics means that in a printing process electrical conducting and semi conducting plastics, so called polymers, are applied in several layers on a polyester film. The printing process is conducted in an exactly defined design so that electronic devices can be created. These devices are integrated, for example, into a RFID (radio frequency identification) tag. PolyIC's product line for RFID is called PolyID. Printed electronics makes low-cost RFID tags possible that can be used for mass applications. Furthermore, this new technology is also used in displays and complex systems, called smart objects. PolyIC sells smart objects under the name of PolyLogo.

 

PolyIC is a joint venture between Siemens AG and Leonhard Kurz Stiftung & Co. KG and is located in Fuerth, Germany. PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2003.

printed systems uses specialized mass printing processes to produce paper electronics fast and cost-effective. The new crossmedia-technology CROSSLINK, consisting of environment-friendly electronic paper cards with imprinted data memory and a low cost USB reader, bridges paper to internet for read@home products. Using this cost effective technology, CROSSLINK provides the base for a new category of applications in various fields like marketing, entertainment and medicine. The cards are already in use in dialogue marketing projects and games but can also be used for micro payment or customer loyalty programmes. In the plant in Chemnitz printed systems produces millions of data memories a day by high speed roll to roll printing.

Soligie is the leading company to utilize printing techniques to manufacture products with integrated, printed electronics in a thin, flexible form-factor. Soligie's proprietary techniques enable the development of reliable, custom solutions using a full range of functional inks and specialized substrates. Soligie is now in production with products that utilize nano-particle and conventional inks. Soligie forms partnerships at any phase from concept to high volume production to make our customers successful. Soligie is also investing in the development of processes for printed thin-film transistors that can be used in products such as smart labels and chipless RFID tags. If you need a manufacturing partner to get your "printed electronics" product to market - let us "Deliver your Vision".

Sun Chemical, the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, is a leading provider of materials to packaging, publication, coatings, plastics, cosmetics, and other industrial markets. With annual sales over $3 billion and 11,000 employees, Sun Chemical operates in 110 countries worldwide. Leveraging 50 years of experience as a supplier to the printed circuits industry, Sun Chemical has recently commercialized a range of new products for membrane switch, RFID and photovoltaics markets. Through an ongoing commitment to developing innovative products that provide value to our customers, Sun Chemical is investing in facilities and technologies targeted at the evolving printed electronics market.

Manufacturer of LASER ABLATION, UV STEPPERS, UV SCANNERS and MASK ALIGNERS. Tamarack supplies photolithography and laser micromachining systems. We specialize in applications including: Displays, RFID, Solar Cells, Organic Electronics, MEMS, Medical Devices and HDI. Our Excimer ablation systems are ideal for direct pattern etching thin metals from various organic substrates to form transistors or other electronic circuits. In addition, these systems are used to via drill most types of polymers with selective material removal, down to 1um. Systems designed for Roll-to-Roll, Reel-to-Reel and Sheet handling. Resolution capabilities to 1um. Machines are designed for 24/7 production environments.

Thin Battery Technologies, Inc. is the leading supplier of thin, flexible, printed power solutions. Thin Battery's products are integrated into innovative solutions created by the leading developers of RFID, RF-linked sensors, transdermal patches, and other thin, flexible, electronics. Providing eco-friendly power sources to printed electronics systems, the TBT leadership team combines a track record of entrepreneurial accomplishment with deep domain experience in printing and high volume, low cost batteries. The technical team is rooted in battery development and has over 250 years of battery design, development, and production experience. Based on a patent estate acquired from the Eveready Battery Company (now Energizer), Thin Battery is expanding its portfolio of products, technology and applications to create market changing solutions.

Thin Film Electronics is providing non-volatile printed memories. By using the physical, chemical and electrical properties of advanced polymers TFE can add new functionality to printed products. Thin Film Electronics technology can be used in many different applications, ranging from high security anti-counterfeit application to children's toys. In fact, TFE's unique polymer memory technology can be used in any printed electronics application were a non volatile random access memory is desired, e.g., to store information on a package that can later be displayed to the customer

UniJet Co. Ltd is a total solution provider of inkjet printing system and technology. UniJet offers process know how of the various application developments and has the capability to develop mass production system and software.

Xennia Technology Ltd is a leading industrial inkjet integrator and developer of printers and inks. Headquartered near London, with a US operation in San Antonio, Texas, Xennia provides state-of-the-art inkjet solutions for a wide variety of industrial applications including printed electronics and displays. In 2005, Xennia launched the XenJet range of inkjet development tools and high accuracy production printers for functional materials deposition. In addition to printing systems Xennia also offers a full fluid development service, implementing customer's proprietary materials into reliable and robust inkjet solutions.

The Organic Electronics Association (OE-A) is a working group within the German Engineering Federation (VDMA) and was founded in December 2004. OE-A is the international key industry association for organic and printed electronics and represents the entire value chain of this emerging industry. Our members are international leading companies and institutions, ranging from component and material suppliers, equipment and tool suppliers, producers / system integrators and end-users to R&D institutes. More than 85 companies from Europe, the US, and Asia work together to promote the establishment of a competitive production infrastructure for organic electronics. The vision of OE-A is to build a bridge between science, technology and application. More than 3000 member companies from the engineering industry make VDMA the largest industry association in Europe.

UK Displays and Lighting Network was launched in April 2006 as part of the DTI - "Knowledge Transfer Networks' programme. UKDL is a vibrant central hub of activity for the displays and lighting community. Designed to stimulate innovation in the key technology sectors by promoting collaboration, best practice and knowledge sharing between industry and academia. By encouraging partnerships and teamwork, UKDL aims to support science base through to end-users. Positioning the UK as the innovation engine for Europe.

 

UKDL supports and strengthens the UK Displays and Lighting Sector through tutorials, workshops and seminars with training and education embracing all levels of industry, commerce and academia. We encourage commercial and industrial collaborations between members that result in creation of wealth for UK plc through the profitable activities of members.

Founded in 2001, Novaled experienced a rapid growth maturing into a world-class company. Novaled commercializes its Novaled PIN OLEDTM technology along with its proprietary OLED materials to display makers and lighting companies. The company has a strong IP position in OLED technology based on more than 300 patents granted or pending.

H.C. Starck is an international group of companies with more than 3,400 employees at production sites in Europe, North America and the Far East. Widely known for its technology in refractory metals and ceramics, H.C. Starck has been a member of the Bayer Group since 1986. In 2006 H.C. Starck was sold to an investors consortium formed by Advent International and The Carlyle Group. H.C. Starck produces an assortment of refractory metal powders that is unique in the world, including tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, niobium, rhenium as well as their compounds and chemicals for the electronics industry.

 

HC Starck provides technical solutions in innovative technologies with its transparent conductive polymer Baytron® P (PEDOT:PSS). Baytron is commercially used in capacitor, OLED, antistatic and various printed electronics applications. HC Starck will spotlight emerging high conductive Baytron materials and formulations at the conference.

www.hcstarck.com and www.baytron.com

Invest in Germany is the inward investment promotion agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. We assist and advise international companies about investment opportunities in Germany. Our experts provide comprehensive project management and support services from site selection to the final realization of the investment. All inquiries will be kept confidential and our services are free of charge.