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E Ink signs joint development agreement with MICROVIEW Electronics for ePaper applications


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E Ink Holdings (Billerica, Massachusetts), a leading innovator of electronic ink technology, has signed a joint development agreement with MICROVIEW Electronics (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. for the development and sale of ePaper modules for retail shelf labels, healthcare, wearables and various IoT applications.

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CPI announces project on wearable electronics


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UK-based CPI will collaborate with Dycotec Materials and KYMIRA Ltd to develop a scalable industrial method to produce and integrate flexible electronic systems into comfortable, smart garments for remote biosensing and monitoring within healthcare and professional sports.

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Repsol and TactoTek to develop smart surfaces with polyolefins


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Polyolefins are the most widely used polymers in the automotive sector due to their exceptional versatility, superior physical and mechanical characteristics, and lightweight, which reduces fuel consumption and emissions. At the end of 2019, Repsol made an equity investment in the Finnish start-up TactoTek, through its investment fund Repsol Corporate Venturing. The two companies are currently developing the technology to manufacture smart surfaces using polyolefins intended mainly for the automotive sector, representing an innovation in materials that enables new design and integration opportunities to different vehicle parts.

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Standardised medication tracking with RFID: Schreiner MediPharm joins DoseID healthcare consortium


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RFID technology has been gaining traction in the healthcare sector, but standardised tools for tracking medications, devices and consumables are lacking. DoseID, a US consortium and the first industry association dedicated to standardising the use of RFID tags in healthcare, was established for the purpose of introducing an industry-wide standard. Schreiner MediPharm (Oberschleißheim, Germany) has joined this alliance of leading players in the healthcare sector.

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Merck announces partnerships to advance materials for flexible, foldable and rollable OLED displays


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Merck (Darmstadt, Germany), a leading science and technology company, has announced partnership agreements with Optitune Oy (Oulu, Finland), and Solip Tech Co., Ltd. (Daejeon, South Korea), to bring the first products under the new umbrella brand liviFlex to the display market. liviFlex offers a novel range of display materials that addresses challenges in the manufacture of flexible, foldable and rollable OLED displays, which are known as free-form displays. With its Performance Materials business sector, Merck is a leading player in the electronic materials market and materials for OLED displays are one of the defined investment focus areas for future growth.

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