Printed Electronics Award Winners Announced at Printed Electronics Europe
April 2007
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CAMBRIDGE, England—More than 330 delegates from 30 countries attended the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe event in Cambridge, UK this week. The event hosted the inaugural IDTechEx Printed Electronics Awards in recognition of outstanding achievement.
Printed Electronics Champion of 2007 - Stuart Evans of Plastic Logic
Plastic Logic was spun out of Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory in 2000. Its first target market is ‘take anywhere, read anywhere’ electronic readers incorporating flexible active matrix displays with millions of printed transistors. These readers will be thin, light and robust, enabling a reading experience closer to paper than any other technology.
As founding CEO, Stuart Evans took Plastic Logic from being an unknown company involved in an obscure technology to being famous and respected word-wide. Stuart is well known for lively presentations, panel chairmanships and active participation at industry events in US, Asia and Europe. He is a popular and frequent speaker at IDTechEx events.
The company raised $50 million equity during 2000-06 to develop its technology. At the start of this year it announced a further $100 million equity fundraising to build its first factory in ‘Silicon Saxony’ in Dresden Germany that will be on-stream by the end of 2008.
Amadeus Capital Partners was the company’s original lead investor, and was followed by other strong financial investors. The company also has an impressive cadre of corporate investors, including Bank of America, BASF, Dow Chemical, Intel, Mitsubishi and Siemens. This is a textbook example of attracting best-in-class investors from around the world that help create an eco-system for a new industry. We are sure Stuart will continue to be one of the best connected and most respected evangelists for printed electronics in the years ahead.
Best Commercialization of Printed Electronics - Menippos
We believe that Menippos is unique in having sold 700,000 of a printed electronic product in only a few months in 2006. It achieved this by designing an innovative new product - something relatively rare in this industry. Using the technology of today rather than waiting for printed transistor networks and other capabilities still on the horizon, the Hurrafussball game takes the company into major possibilities for the future as well. It is a wake up call to the printed electronics industry, showing that it has huge opportunities with technology already available as long as it innovates in the marketplace.
“HurraFussball” is the first “Connecting media game”, which is based on printed electronics. It couples the world of ordinary trading card games with the world of ordinary online games by trading cards, which are electronically equipped with a printed polymer 16 Bit ID Tag. The game marked the beginning of a functioning co-operation between Menippos GmbH as a game-publisher and printed system GmbH as a technology deliverer.
Printed Electronics Champion of 2007 - Stuart Evans of Plastic Logic
Plastic Logic was spun out of Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory in 2000. Its first target market is ‘take anywhere, read anywhere’ electronic readers incorporating flexible active matrix displays with millions of printed transistors. These readers will be thin, light and robust, enabling a reading experience closer to paper than any other technology.
As founding CEO, Stuart Evans took Plastic Logic from being an unknown company involved in an obscure technology to being famous and respected word-wide. Stuart is well known for lively presentations, panel chairmanships and active participation at industry events in US, Asia and Europe. He is a popular and frequent speaker at IDTechEx events.
The company raised $50 million equity during 2000-06 to develop its technology. At the start of this year it announced a further $100 million equity fundraising to build its first factory in ‘Silicon Saxony’ in Dresden Germany that will be on-stream by the end of 2008.
Amadeus Capital Partners was the company’s original lead investor, and was followed by other strong financial investors. The company also has an impressive cadre of corporate investors, including Bank of America, BASF, Dow Chemical, Intel, Mitsubishi and Siemens. This is a textbook example of attracting best-in-class investors from around the world that help create an eco-system for a new industry. We are sure Stuart will continue to be one of the best connected and most respected evangelists for printed electronics in the years ahead.
Best Commercialization of Printed Electronics - Menippos
We believe that Menippos is unique in having sold 700,000 of a printed electronic product in only a few months in 2006. It achieved this by designing an innovative new product - something relatively rare in this industry. Using the technology of today rather than waiting for printed transistor networks and other capabilities still on the horizon, the Hurrafussball game takes the company into major possibilities for the future as well. It is a wake up call to the printed electronics industry, showing that it has huge opportunities with technology already available as long as it innovates in the marketplace.
“HurraFussball” is the first “Connecting media game”, which is based on printed electronics. It couples the world of ordinary trading card games with the world of ordinary online games by trading cards, which are electronically equipped with a printed polymer 16 Bit ID Tag. The game marked the beginning of a functioning co-operation between Menippos GmbH as a game-publisher and printed system GmbH as a technology deliverer.
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