Companies / Markets

PragmatIC Semiconductor leads project to digitise reusable packaging

Friday 11 March 2022
Companies / Markets

PragmatIC Semiconductor (Cambridge, UK), a world leader in flexible electronics, is leading an Innovate UK, Smart Sustainability Plastic Packaging business project that will make reusable plastic packaging systems a reality at scale. The project code-named TRACE (Technology-enabled Reusable Assets for a Circular Economy) will use PragmatIC’s ultra-low-cost NFC technology to give reusable containers unique digital identities (UIDs) so that the packages can be efficiently and effectively returned and reused.

Refocused Canatu launches new brand and website

Thursday 10 March 2022
Companies / Markets

Carbon nanotubes are here to stay. They have evolved from their beginnings to being able to provide a transformative impact in breakthroughs. Likewise, Canatu (Vantaa, Finland) has evolved from its early start-up days to a solid company with a firm foundation and sharp focus.

Schreiner Group: Climate-neutral by 2030

Wednesday 09 March 2022
Companies / Markets

Climate-neutral production from 2023 on and achievement of full climate neutrality by 2030—this is the strategic sustainability goal of Schreiner Group based in the district of Munich. As a result, the internationally oriented family-owned company for innovative high-tech labels and functional parts assumes a pioneering role in German industry.

FlexEnable raises $11-$25M to take flexible displays and active optics to mass production

Tuesday 22 February 2022
Companies / Markets

FlexEnable (Cambridge, UK), a leader in the development and industrialisation of flexible organic electronics, has raised $11M Series B financing. Coretronic, a major Taiwanese LCD backlight module manufacturer, has made a strategic investment alongside significant European family offices. The initial $11M investment includes options for a further $14m and is expected to finance FlexEnable through to mass production ramp up of flexible displays and liquid crystal optical modules at Asian display manufacturing partners. The funds will also be used to scale up the company’s organic materials production capacity to meet the growing needs of display manufacturing partners entering volume production.

ASCA acquires world’s largest intellectual property portfolio of printed organic photovoltaics

Monday 14 February 2022
Companies / Markets

ASCA, an organic photovoltaics (OPV) global leader and part of the French ARMOR Group, has purchased the most relevant device- and module-related intellectual property (IP) portfolio regarding printed OPV. At the end of 2021, ASCA took patents on OPV production and technology from the Darmstadt, Germany-based leading science and technology company Merck. With this purchase, the company has become the largest portfolio owner with regard to printed OPV worldwide through tripling its number of patents.