22nd of November 2010

Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH was awarded the JEC Composites Innovation Award for 2010 for Impregnating, Laminating and Calendering with maximum flexibility and process versatility in the patented Coatema Click&Coat machinery concept.

The prestigious prize was presented by Prof. Klaus Drechsler, of the University of Stuttgart, to Andrea Glawe, Deputy Sales Director of Coatema, during the annual JEC Composites 2010 event in Singapore.

When asked about the differences between the Click&Coat concept and conventional technologies Frau Glawe said, "The innovation in this concept is our modular approach designed for flexibility and future expansion."

Glawe explained that this not only includes quick change coating heads but also many critical process components which can be moved into position by a simple "click" and connected to a recently developed master control system.

Combinations of 40 different modules for various processes are possible without expensive and time consuming mechanical and electronic alternations.

Adjustable floor rollers on each module, the unique Click&Coat connector system and minimum cabling requirements make changes and expansions very user friendly.

This versatility provides for a maximum of process variants for coating, drying, curing, cleaning, calendaring and other critical process technologies.

Combined with Coatema´s well-known changeable modular coating and printing systems the Click&Coat technology cannot be matched for flexibility and as such is well-deserved of the JEC Innovation Award 2010 in the “Process” category.

"It makes it possible to react to technology change requirement in a time, cost and space saving way," concluded Glawe.

Coatema reports that the first Click&Coat prepreg line, with a working width of 800 mm, is currently being installed. It will be capable of implementing 5 different coating methods for direct or indirect coating on paper, rovings and other typical composite substrates.

The JEC Composites Show 2011 will take place in Paris from the 29th to the 31st of March 2011. The prepreg specialists at Coatema are looking forward to meeting you at the exhibition on booth V71.

29 February 2012

Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that existing customer Epistar Corp, a manufacturer of optoelectronic materials and devices in Taiwan, has received its first CRIUS II-XL system (in 19x4-inch wafer configuration). The system will be used to mass produce ultra-high-brightness (UHB) blue and white LEDs.

The CRIUS II-XL system has passed the process demonstration and acceptance test. In line with their usual procedure, Epistar will now further qualify the system in mass production. Epistar plans to purchase more CRIUS II-XL systems when they expand their production capacity. “Looking at this first tool, I can see that the CRIUS II-XL will make a huge difference to our productivity,” notes Epistar’s president Dr Ming-Jiunn Jou. “Thanks to its seamless process compatibility with our earlier-generation reactors, the latest CRIUS technology is set to rapidly and efficiently drive forward future capacity expansion and technology advances,” he reckons.

“With the purchase of our latest system, the CRIUS II-XL, Epistar continues to pursue its cutting-edge production and engineering innovation in epitaxial growth,” comments Aixtron’s chief operating officer Dr Bernd Schulte. “The CRIUS II-XL design concept offers the largest productivity with best-in-class uniformities, which massively increases yield and directly translates into enhanced competitiveness for Epistar’s products in an ever demanding marketplace,” he adds.

Located at the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park in Taiwan, Epistar has for over a decade been focused on the development, manufacture and marketing of UHB LED products. Using its proprietary MOCVD process technology, it continues to commercialize a full range of UHB LEDs.

Launched by Aixtron last November, the CRIUS II-XL configuration offers a reactor capacity as high as 19x4 inch wafers (up 46% on the original CRIUS II), giving it the highest throughput and lowest cost of ownership in the LED industry, it is claimed.

SINGAPORE, 23 November 2011: Key business leaders from the organic and printed electronics industry throughout Asia, Europe and the US converge in Singapore for the international symposium on roll-to-roll processing of printed electronics and functional films to share on advanced technologies, applications and market opportunities. Hosted by the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and in co-operation with the Organic and Printed Electronics Association and the Singaporean-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the event is held in conjunction with the roll-out of SIMTech’s Large Area Processing Programme.

2.   Dr Raj Thampuran, Executive Director, A*STAR’s Science and Engineering Research Council said, “A*STAR researchers have made significant advancements in the field of printed electronics and I am glad that experts from all over the world are here to learn about SIMTech’s newly formed large area processing programme which will launch more industry collaborations in this area and grow this sector in Singapore.”

3.  Emerging applications such as photovoltaics, flexible electronics and solid-state lighting which require large area functional and often flexible surfaces are the key factors driving up the demand for roll-to-roll manufacturing. With a global market valued at US$2B in 2011 and expected to worth over US$40B by 2020, it opens up immense commercial opportunities for key industry sectors such as advertising, building, consumer electronics, healthcare and printed media.

4. Unlike conventional semiconductor fabrication which requires batch processing of wafers, the large-area processing system involves a continuous printing press-like manufacturing process compatible with flexible polymer. Using roll-to-roll processing, functional materials can be printed on thin, light-weight, flexible and transparent plastic films. Broad industry applications include ambient lighting, portable backlight for outdoor advertising, portable signages, automotive, aerospace and buildings.

5. By leveraging on disruptive manufacturing technology platforms, SIMTech's Large Area Processing Programme aims to develop more innovative "Made in Singapore" products with novel coating, patterning, embossing web control and web inspection techniques that are not available in the industry today.

6.  Dr Lim Ser Yong, Executive Director of SIMTech said, “We are collaborating closely with the print and media industries in Singapore to capture emerging market opportunities in state-of-the-art high speed printing such as inkjet printing, screen printing and flexographic printing to deposit functional materials in roll-to-roll manufacturing processes. This will transform the printing industry into a new industry in printed electronics and functional films.”

7. Ms Julia Ng, Director of Manufacturing and Construction Division of Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) said, “We are pleased to support the inaugural international symposium where advanced technologies, applications and market opportunities are shared among key business leaders.  Large Area Processing is an emerging technology, which will create new employment opportunities for the workforce. To this end, WDA will continue to work closely with SIMTech to leverage this technology to build new manpower capabilities.”

8.   Strategic industry-driven collaborations with key industry partners include application examples such as printed heating film for blood or liquid warming in medical applications and printed lighting film for ambient or decorative lighting in advertising and building applications.

9.  SIMTech is hosting the first-ever OE-A Working Group Meeting in Asia and the Symposium on Roll-to-Roll Processing of Printed Electronics and Functional Films. The sponsors are aNexus, Coatema, Dimatix and Singapore Workforce Development Agency.

Award recognizes Dimatix DMP-2831 for its considerable contribution to the field of printable electronics.

Santa Clara, CA; February 29, 2012– Citing the FUJIFILM Dimatix DMP-2831 Dimatix Materials Printer's considerable contribution to the rapidly growing printable electronics field, judges at Printable Electronics 2012 awarded the show's coveted Grand Prize this year to FUJIFILM Corporation. The international convention held February 15-17 at the Tokyo International Convention Center attracted more than 45,000 visitors.

The FUJIFILM Dimatix inkjet printer won the Grand Prize based on its desktop design, its easily used cartridge-style inkjet printhead and its cost-efficiency in offering these design achievements at a competitive price.

"As an R&D tool, [the FUJIFILM Dimatix DMP-2831] is the most popular inkjet printer installed at various research laboratories, and it is becoming the industry-standard inkjet printer," the judges stated. As a result, they concluded, the Dimatix printer has contributed considerably to the printable electronics field.

Printable electronics describes electrical devices manufactured by thin-film deposition and finely tuned conductive patterning using any of several methods by which one or more inks are printed on various, often flexible substrates.  In 2011, the market for printed, thin-film and organic electronics was expected by market research firm IDTechEx to exceed $2 billion, with 38% of products printed. By 2021, they note, growth driven by photovoltaics, organic LED and e-paper displays, and thin-film transistor circuits, sensors and batteries is forecasted to propel the market to nearly $45 billion, with printed products comprising 56% of the total.

The FUJIFILM Dimatix DMP-2800 is a cartridge-based bench-top materials deposition system designed for micro-precision jetting of functional fluids such as organic polymers, nanoparticles, conductors, dielectrics, resists, nucleotides, enzymes, and proteins without heat or contact onto virtually any surface. It can build and define patterns over an area of 200 x 300 mm onto substrates up to 25 mm thick using user-fillable cartridges – qualities that make short, experimental production runs feasible for a multitude of applications ranging from RFID, flexible electronics and photovoltaics to biosensors and DNA synthesis reactions.

FUJIFILM Dimatix DMP-2800-series printers have won numerous awards, including the Printed Electronics USA Commercialization Award for outstanding achievement in demonstrating the greatest tangible commercial success in photovoltaics or printed electronics, the Design News magazine Golden Mousetrap Award; the Nano 50 Award from Nanotech Briefs® magazine; and the first Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal Emerging Technology Award (Biotechnology category), given to emerging companies and technologies that have the potential to profoundly impact people and businesses.

Aachen/Germany, April 11, 2011 – AIXTRON SE today announced a new order for the first automated 300 mm Black Magic system for Graphene deposition from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan. The unique properties of Graphene make it an extremely promising channel material for next generation microelectronics and high frequency applications.

AIST placed the order in the first quarter of 2011 and the system will be delivered in the third quarter of 2011. The system will be installed in the AIST Super Clean Room at Tsukuba and commissioned by the local AIXTRON support team.

The AIXTRON automated Black Magic Graphene system met the very challenging requirements by the project group of Synthesis and Transfer Application of Graphene at the Collaborative Research Team Green Nanoelectronics Center (GNC). The system will be used for the development and application of Nanocarbon materials, which is one of the three main research assignments of GNC established at AIST in April 2010.

Dr Ken Teo, Director of Nanoinstruments at AIXTRON, comments, “We are providing the most technologically advanced platform for Graphene production available today and I believe it is the world's first 300mm size commercial system ever sold. The reactor has extraordinary temperature uniformity and a sophisticated gas delivery system which has been designed for precise precursor delivery. The system also includes our ARGUS in-situ thermal mapping system. An automated handler and multi-wafer loadlock are integrated for high throughput.”

Headquartered in Tsukuba and Tokyo, Japan, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), led by President Nomakuchi, is a public research institution funded mainly by the Japanese government. AIST has over 40 autonomous research units in various innovative research fields, and the units are located at nine research bases and several sites (smaller than research bases) of AIST all over Japan. AIST was ranked in the top 10 Japanese Research Institutions for All Fields 1998-2008 by Thomson Reuters.

GNC is supported by the Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST Program) which aims to encourage leading-edge research and development to strengthen Japan’s international competitiveness and contribute to the society and people’s welfare. This program was approved by the Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan in 2009. GNC research and development activities are performed in collaboration with visiting researchers from industrial partner companies.

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Thursday 26th January 2012

April 5th, 2011 - Düsseldorf, Germany
Coatema Wins IDTechEx Award for “Technical Development Manufacturing”

Christoph Dittrich, Sales Manager

Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH was awarded the IDTechEX Technical Development Manufacturing Award 2011 for its Click&Coat Plant Concept, offering a maximum flexibility and process versatility for sophisticated coating and printing processes in the world of flexible electronics.

The prestigious prize was handed over by Dr. Peter Harrop, Chairman of IDTechEx, to Mr. Thomas Kolbusch, Vice President of Coatema, on the occasion of the “Printed Electronics & Photovoltaics Europe 2011” event in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Once more, Coatema has proven that their concept “From Lab to Fab”, which is adaptable to a large number of emerging industries, takes research driven developments to a new level and contributes massively to a rapid scale-up for taking real products to market.

The award-winning Click&Coat concept is based on the idea that each and every process step is considered a single unit, whereas these units can be arranged and rearranged individually, offering a large number of possible combinations and easy enhancement at a later stage. The unparalleled advantage of this concept is a maximum degree of freedom in the arrangement of roll to roll processes.

Besides the Click&Coat pilot machinery concept, the slightly improved Smartcoater - a full miniature coater on an incredible compact footprint, which was launched in early 2010 – was demonstrated. Live trials during the event underlined modularity and flexibility of this hands-on laboratory coating and laminating concept.

The Smartcoater features a 5in1 coating system capable of covering a remarkable coating media viscosity range, making it the perfect tool for slot-die, doctor blade, two-roller and dip-coating processes as well as for gravure printing operations on 150 mm roller width. The built-in drying system in the standard 500 mm version can be adapted in length and drying technology used and many optional add-ons make it even more valuable for ambitious research operations.

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