MicroEmissive Displays: production plant and first order

According to their press release, MicroEmissive Displays (MED, Edinburgh, UK)

will start commissioning and qualification of its new production plant in the Fraunhofer IPMS in Dresden early in 2007. The move comes following the on-time handover of the purpose built cleanroom and delivery of the tool set from ANS Korea.

The 350 m2 purpose built cleanroom is [...]

Polymer Vision secures €21 million, announces spin-out from Philips

Polymer Vision, who presented the first functional device with a rollable display at IFA 2005, have announced their spin-out from Philips:

Philips™ Incubator activity Polymer Vision will become an independent company – Polymer Vision Ltd., focusing on products for the rollable display market. Technology Capital has invested €21 million in the company and will become the [...]

ORFID and BASF team up to develop printable organic electronics

ORFID Corporation [...] has signed an agreement with BASF Future Business GmbH (BFB), a subsidiary of BASF Aktiengesellschaft, to collaborate on the development and commercialization of printable organic electronic devices for use in display backplanes, RFID tags and other next generation electronic products.
Under the agreement, BFB will provide organic materials, materials expertise and financial resources [...]

Plastic Logic and iRex join IFRA eNews initiative

Epaper.org.uk is reporting that Plastic Logic and iRex (both are developers of electronic ink e-book reader technology) are joining the IFRA eNews initiative.

One of the world’s leading organisation for newspaper and media publishing, Ifra, is joining forces with more than 20 of the world’s leading publishing houses and a group of four leading technology developers [...]