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SmartKem has secured a €1.8million EU
grant to support the industrialisation and
technology transfer of their semiconductor
platform to display makers in Asia.
With a €850k contribution from
SmartKem, the €2.65million project
will accelerate the adoption of organic
semiconductors as a universal thin film
transistor (TFT) backplane platform for
the mass manufacture of flexible and
curved mobile, embedded and large area
OLED and LCD displays.
Organic semiconductors, a key enabling component in the
evolution of flexible active matrix displays, is competing
to offer manufacturers a route to the production of high
performance curved, foldable and even roll-able OLED and
LCD displays. SmartKem is at the forefront of this market as
a leading innovator of organic semiconductors for the low
temperature, solution coat production of high performance
TFTs on plastic.
Adoption of the SmartKem semiconductor platform, truFLEX
®
not only offers an ultra-flexible TFT platform for new form
factor displays but also a transistor that delivers simplified
pixel drive circuitry through high transistor electrical stability.
GE Plans to Invest 1.4B USD to Acquire Additive
Manufacturing Companies Arcam and SLM; Accelerates
Efforts in Important Digital Industrial Space
2.65 MILLION EURO EUROPEAN PROJECT TO SUPPORT
FLEXIBLE SEMICONDUCTOR ADOPTION IN ASIA
It also provides world leading
reduction in power consumption in
any display format, translating to
weekly and not daily charging of
mobile OLED and LCD display based
devices such as smartwatches and
smartphones.
SmartKem will lead the 2-year
project, which will focus on the
industrialisation and transfer of their
organic semiconductor platform
over large area plastic substrates using standard slit coat
processing. The main objective will be to maintain electrical
and physical uniformity and quality of transistor performance
over large area formats for mass production on existing
production lines in Asia.
The requirements for the project deliverables are driven by a
number of commercial agreements that SmartKem have with
display OEMs for the adoption of the truFLEX
®
technology
platform for flexible display manufacture. The success of the
project will ensure a strong European position in the supply
of specialised, high value materials to this new, high growth
sector of the display industry in Asia.
GE (NYSE: GE), the world’s leading digital industrial company,
today announced plans to acquire two suppliers of additive
manufacturing equipment, Arcam AB and SLM Solutions
Group AG for $1.4 billion. Both companies will report into
David Joyce, President & CEO of GE Aviation. Joyce will lead
the growth of these businesses in the additive manufacturing
equipment and services industry. In addition, he will lead the
integration effort and the GE Store initiative to drive additive
manufacturing applications across GE.
“Additive manufacturing is a key part of GE’s evolution into a
digital industrial company. We are creating a more productive
world with our innovative world-class machines, materials
and software. We are poised to not only benefit from this
movement as a customer, but spearhead it as a leading
supplier,” said Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO of GE. “Additive
manufacturing will drive new levels of productivity for GE, our
customers, including a wide array of additive manufacturing
customers, and for the industrial world.”
GE expects to grow the new additive business to $1 billion
by 2020 at attractive returns and also expects $3-5 billion of
product cost-out across the company over the next ten years.
Arcam AB, based in Mölndal, Sweden, invented the
electron beam melting machine for metal-based additive
manufacturing, and also produces advanced metal
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