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2024

Printed Electronics in Electrified and Autonomous Mobility

Electrification, autonomy, and vehicle ownership saturation are causing a technological revolution in the automotive sector. These automotive meta-trends are driving drastic changes in electronic component requirements and present a high-volume opportunity for printed electronics to capitalize on.

BeLink Solutions

BeLink Solutions is a Tier-1 supplier to the automotive and home automation industries. This profile provides an overview of its development in the printed electronics field.

niebling

niebling offer precise high pressure forming equipment for in-mold electronics (IME) and film-insert molding (FIM). This profile is based on the information gathered at LOPEC 2024.

TNO (Holst Centre)

This profile provides an update on TNO's activity in improving the sustainability of in-mold electronics (IME), incorporating information gathered from LOPEC 2024.

Marabu

Marabu is a leading manufacturer specializing in the development and supply of inks and paints. This profile focuses on its products for film insert molding/in-mold decoration applications.

TracXon

TracXon are a very early stage company (founded summer 2022) that aim to be a contract manufacturer for flexible hybrid electronics (FHE).

Altium

Altium is a company providing software tools for electronic product design. This profile highlights its new 3D-MID (Mechatronic Integrated Devices) Design feature, which focuses on 3D circuit design, allowing the integration of both electrical and mechanical functionality into a single part.

2023

Unravelling Competing In-Mold Electronics Manufacturing Methodologies

Smooth, functional surfaces that provide touch sensing, often with backlighting, are becoming increasingly common. Applications range from vehicle interiors and domestic appliances to medical devices and aircraft seating. Rather than relying on a mechanical or membrane switch, these surfaces utilize capacitive touch sensing - the same principle used in smartphone displays.

TactoTek adds TracXon Solutions to enhance supply of IMSE Technology

Finnish IMSE pioneer TactoTek and TracXon, an innovative spin-off of the Holst Centre, have signed a license agreement

Tactotek

Tactotek has developed a methodology for producing decorative surfaces with embedded electronics functionality, termed in-mold structural electronics. IDTechEx caught up with SVP for Business Development Dave Rice to learn about the current status of both the technological development and its adoption into different markets.

MacDermid Alpha

MacDermind Alpha produces 'electronics manufacturing solutions', encompassing a wide range of materials and processes. At the 'Printed Electronic Innovations Showcase Day', it outlined its in-mold electronics portfolio.

2022

E2IP

Canadian firm E2IP outlined how its screen-printing and molding technology can be used to create meta-surfaces for manipulating wireless communication signals.

Finnadvance

Finnadvance is an organ-on-a-chip company for biomedical and pharmaceutical research. IDTechEx visited and spoke with the Finnadvance team.

Tactotek

In a recent webinar, Tactotek outlined how its in-mold structural electronics (IMSE) components can be utilized for smart surfaces and smart homes. This is a different target market to the often cited applications for in-mold electronics in the automotive and domestic appliance sectors.

TactoTek Licensee Nanogate is ready for IMSE Manufacturing

TactoTek announces that its licensee, Nanogate, is ready to mass produce IMSE parts. Nanogate recently completed the IMSE Builder technology transfer and has verified IMSE manufacturing capabilities.

DuraTech Industries Licenses TactoTek Technology

TactoTek and DuraTech Industries announced that DuraTech has licensed TactoTek IMSE technology. DuraTech is a TactoTek Design and Innovate licensee with rights to sell, design, and produce parts that use TactoTek's intellectual property which includes 44 patent families with over 130 granted patents, as well as extensive trade secrets and know-how for designing and producing IMSE parts. DuraTech will create and deliver IMSE solutions for its customers in North America and around the world from production facilities in the USA.

Tactotek

Sustainability is a challenge for in-mold electronics (IME) due to the integrated nature of the components. This profile reviews a recent Tactotek webinar discussing sustainability for IME, which included a new life cycle analysis.

In-Mold Electronics: Multiple Players, Diverging Strategies

How do we communicate with our electronic devices? There are many different 'human-machine interfaces (HMI)' options, ranging from the well-established (keyboard/mouse/mechanical switches) to somewhat more recent developments such as the capacitive touch screens found on smartphones. As greater numbers of devices around us gain 'smart' functionality, the ability to incorporate HMI components elegantly and cost-effectively is increasingly important.

2021

Symbiose

Symbiose are spin-off from CEA Liten that are developing in-mold electronics (IME). The company has recently built a factory near Bordeaux, with the aim of becoming a parts manufacturer. IDTechEx met Symbiose and interacted with its demonstration components at Huawei's Smart Cockpit Workshop in December 2021.

TactoTek: Smarter surfaces for a smarter future

Whitepaper by TactoTek: How 3D Structural electronics will change the way we design, create and experience the future