The cambridgeheadquartered venture, newlynamed flexenable, will commercialise the plastic transistor technology developed at plastic logic in a range of highgrowth, connected markets such as wearables, sensor systems and other internet of things iot products. He previously worked for the usaf research labs in dayton, ohio. Plastic logic s electronic book reader is an ultra skinny, extra large device targeted at business users. Plastic logic germany licenses technology from flexenable ltds technology platform based on organic thin film transistors otfts, enabling electronics to be manufactured on flexible or plastic sheets, to make flexible plastic electrophoretic displays epd in a full range of sizes. Plastic logic the most flexible, unbreakable, lightweight epaper. Plastic logics spectacular rebirth business weekly technology. Customers include oems, component manufacturers and materials suppliers. Plastic logic spinsoff its technology arm to a separate. Plastic logic made headlines a few years back for its. Plastic logic limited 15 jun 2000 30 jan 2015 commtone limited 11 jan 2000 15 jun 2000. It is receiving its debut at the sid display week 2015 event on 24 june in san jose, california the conformable screen includes inplane switching to enhance picture quality and viewing angle on. Prior to the launch of flexenable, dean was director of manufacturing projects at plastic logic and part of the core team involved in designing, building and ramping the worlds first factory for flexible electronics in dresden, germany.
My focus has been on plastic organic electronic beginning my career at plastic logic in 2001, and moving on to flexenable. Why plastic logic failed despite the ebook boom gigaom. By joining our free community today, you will have fewer ads, access to post topics, communicate privately with other members, respond to polls, upload content and access many. Prior to flexenable, james was appointed group finance director for plastic logic in 20. The company also provides product prototyping services.
Ive been working in the electronics industry for the past 20 years. Flexenable s other demonstration at mwc 2016 was the same. Hopefully they can get on the map in the near future and start challenging e ink because plastic logics color displays look a lot better than e inks. Plastic logic ceo indro mukerjee officially debuted the electronic textbook at an event held at the moscow planetarium during a visit by british. Plastic logic is headquartered in dresden, saxony, and was founded in 2000. Plastic logic germany epds offer huge advantages over conventional, glassbased epd being extremely robust and truly flexible. Paul has a physics phd from the university of cambridge and an mba from london business school. Plastic logic germany is the leader in the development and manufacture of flexible, glassfree electrophoretic displays, for smart cards, mobile devices, signage, wearables and more.
Plastics in electrical and electronic applications amnimarjeslow government revenue cyclone to costing recycling 200 2018 91220017 revans post army what you need to know about plastic electronics plastics might seem unlikely materials for building electrical circuits but recent breakthroughs have made this possible. Its availability was announced by plastic logic on september 12, 2011. Mike has contributed to the companys technology breakthroughs with organic transistors, including oled and lcd displays and digital circuit applications. Flexenable s awardwinning organic electronics platform and highperformance otft materials enable low cost, glassfree flexible displays, sensors and optics that can be conformed and shaped to almost any surface. Flexenable and merck take major step forward in plastic lcd. Plastic logic has developed new color epaper and the technology will have a resolution of 150 ppi. Flexenables technology platform enables new mobile and wearable products as well as sensor arrays and structural electronics that bring an extra dimension to the iot internet of things. The idea is to create a whole new device type for business professionals. Based on the plastic backplane developed by plastic logic, the new screen tech has the potential of making products ten times thinner, more than ten times lighter, and cheaper than conventional glassbased displays. The company mostly focus on epaper displays, but it is also involved with oled displays. The company provides electrophoretic and flexible plastic display products.
Jul 22, 2009 plastic logic says the device will be marketed to business users, which typically suggests a higher price and the need to lure more affluent customers. Russian investor rusnano is among them, while the board also boasts strong photonics expertise in the form of ceo chuck milligan and director henning. Plastic logic germany develops and manufactures electrophoretic displays epd, based on. Plastic logic generates 111% the revenue of flexenable. Flexenable develops otftbased backplanes for flexible displays, suitable for both epd and oled technologies. Plastic logic is one of flexenable s top competitors. Plastic logic 100 was an electronic textbook which was intended for educational use. Flexenable and merck take major step forward in plastic lcd technology. In 2011 plastic logic received a major investment from russias rusnano fund, and the company setup a manufacturing plant in dresden, germany. It has an easy gesturebased user interface and powerful software tools that will help business users to organize and manage their information. T technology commercialisation, transfer and business development professional with 25 years broad engineering and commercial experience in a variety of industry sectors including semiconductors, optoelectronics, telecommunication, capital equipment, and otft plastic electronic displays.
Flexenables competitors, revenue, number of employees. Flexenable limited overview free company information. Plastic logic demos flexible color displays and more videos. Oct 19, 2009 plastic logic first showed off its gadget in september 2008 at demo in san diego, then the company took its device to ces in january and to top it all off the ereader made another demo at d7 last. Uk company flexenable launching flexible electronics for internet of things markets. Flexenable was created from plastic logic s people and its technology assets in cambridge, uk. Prior to the launch of flexenable, mike was senior research manager at plastic logic. Isorg and flexenable win award for flexible image sensor. Flexenable was created from plastic logics people and its technology assets in cambridge, uk. With over patents and more than engineering years in the development of organic materials and manufacturing processes, flexenable is the worldwide leader in organic electronics. Plastic logic is spinning out its cambridge business as a developer of plastic electronics for applications across mobile, wearables and internet of things iot products. The new flexenable demo unit features a massive olcd o for organic. Beginning later that month, a shipment of devices was scheduled to be used on a trial basis in selected schools in russia which were planning to be pioneering the electronic textbook program. Flexenable and merck take major step forward in plastic.
And now the verge reports that at mwc this week flexenable has is showing off a screen you can wrap around your wrist but they havent come up with a reason why you would want to. Uk company flexenable launching flexible electronics for. Plastic logic connection flexenable is closely related to the cambridge university spinout plastic logic, and features many of the same executives and investors on its board of directors. Plastic logic was founded in 2000 as a spinoff from cambridge university, to develop otft backplanes for displays. Isorg announces that its first largesized highresolution 500 dpi flexible plastic fingerprint sensor, codeveloped with flexenable former plastic logic, won the 2017 best of sensors expo silver applications award. The detroit free press and the detroit news have seen the writing on the wall and think the time is right to go digital by partnering with plastic logic to offer digital content delivery and. Stream adfree or purchase cds and mp3s now on amazon. Plastic logic ereader is slimmer than kindle dx wired. The company was spunoff from plastic logic in february 2015 to further develop the technology and license it for display makers flexenable has a track record of groundbreaking graphene innovation and industrialisation. The most flexible, unbreakable, lightweight epaper displays.
Sep 05, 2012 aside from a couple of trial projects, plastic logic still doesnt have any products on the market, but they continue to develop their plastic displays in both color and blackandwhite. Based on plastic logics patent and tech portfolio, flexenable will provide expert assistance to device makers, screen tech companies, and. View james newmans profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Flashed project flexible large area sensors for highly. The reader, which has yet to be named, will display various types of media such as newspapers, e books and. Merck, flexenable demo a flexible plasticlcd prototype. After several delays and amid rapidly falling prices, the startup says it has canceled plans for the pricey book and document reader. Available in a wide range of sizes, these epds are being used in smart cards, wearables, mobile devices, and signage. Plastic logic will remain as an epd developer and producer based in dresden, germany while flexenable based in cambridge, uk will handle the otft backplane development and offer technology licenses to display makers in 2014 plastic logic in collaboration with novaled demonstrated a monochrome 4. Flexenable ltd flexenable limited develops, manufactures, and distributes plastic electronic products. Apr 24, 2018 in 2015 plastic logic split into two companies, the main plastic logic brand was relocated to their production facility in dresden germany and the other company, flexenable focuses on research and. Previous positions include corporate controller for veebeam wireless technology, finance erp business support for ge smallworld gis software, financial and corporate controller for virata and controller of international operations for globespan virata inc.
This week the folks at isorg and plastic logic are ramping up for their first full. Over the past year flexenable nee plastic logic has been showing off increasingly sophisticated flexible eink, lcd, and amoled screens. Plastics in electrical and electronic applications. Plastic logic ereader to be used by detroit newspapers. Last year plastic logic demonstrated the worlds first display based on a graphene backplane a 150ppi activematrix e ink panel, and now we have some more details on the companys graphene otft goals. Flexenable limited free company information from companies house including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity.
In february 2015, plastic logic announced that the technology development and manufacturing parts of its enterprise would split into two independent companies. Plastic logic gmbh develops and manufactures products and services for the plastic electronics. Flexenable and isorg present 1mp flexible image sensor. Plastic logic of dresden, germany, which licenses flexenable s technology, develops and manufactures shatterproof, glassfree epds, or electrophoretic displays. Prior to the launch of flexenable, paul was head of business planning and previously senior manager technology at plastic logic.
Plastic logic, the otft backplane developer and epd producer has split into two companies. The adobe reader is renamed adobe acrobat reader, its former name. Flexenable plastic logic joins the graphene flagship. Hello, i need plastic logic application to transfer data between pc and ebook reader. Plastic logic has been in and out of the news for months with its supposed kindlekilling ereader, but we really havent seen much other than. Jul 07, 2017 isorg and flexenable win award for flexible image sensor ala news. The highresolution, ultrathin, 500 dpi flexible image sensor sensitive from visible to near infrared has unique advantages in performance and compactness. The company was spunoff from plastic logic in february 2015 to further develop the technology and license it for display makers in 2014 plastic logic demonstrated flexible amoled prototypes built on their otft backplanes. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.
These daylight readable displays are designed to be lightweight, thin and robust with low battery consumption. Flexenable has been created from plastic logic s people and its. Plastic logic gmbh company profile and news bloomberg. Plastic logic is spinning out its cambridge business as a developer of plastic electronics for applications across mobile, wearables and internet of things iot. Jan 07, 2010 however plastic logic a spin out form cambridge universitys cavendish labs intends to build partnerships with other companies in the future to share its technology. That is nifty tech, but it is also largely the same tech that plastic logic has been working on for the past decade and has been trying to sell to device makers for the past five years. Business weekly understands that plastic logic s russian investor, rusnano. Plastic logics manufacturing entity in dresden, germany, which manufactures and sells a range of flexible, electrophoretic displays epd, will now be called plastic logic germany, leaving flexenable as an independent uk company.
Plastic logic creates the company flexenable to develop the next flexible displays. The manufacturing plant in dresden, germany, which develops, manufactures and sells a range of flexible epd, operates independently under the name plastic logic germany. Flexenable shows off flexible amoled prototype in video. Bbc news plastic logic ereader aims to challenge kindle. Flexenables massive new wristband shows all that you. To generate focus while addressing the full range of opportunities available in these markets, the technology development and manufacturing parts of plastic logic will be separated and will go forward as independent companies. Plastic logic spins off screen tech arm, focuses on manufacturing. And if youre lucky enough to be at the all things d conference, youre getting one for free. Plastic logic unveiled its digital reader monday at the demo technology convention. Plastics get flexible for electronics nxtbook media. In 2015 plastic logic split into two companies, the main plastic logic brand was relocated to their production facility in dresden germany and the other company, flexenable.
A flexible display is an electronic visual display which is flexible in nature. Flexenable licenses its technology and supplies materials to display manufacturers. We work with display manufacturers, oems and tier 1 companies to bring these groundbreaking technologies to mass market applications. The online books page gives access to two million free books on the internet. Flexenable used to be plastic logic and isorg reveal the worlds first large area flexible fingerprint sensor on plastic designed for biometric applications.
Unlike the kindle, the plastic logic reader will also be able to access wifi hot spots. In 2015, we split up the company and effectively spun off the fab in germany, where it is now known as plastic logic germany. Plastic logic has been around for almost twenty years and they have no. At this point it feels like plastic logic and now flexenable is destined to always be known for the amazing new concept, but never the worldchanging product. Flexenable shows printed electronic organic lcd screen for. Pokemon manga e books are available in schools and libraries worldwide. Flexenable ltd company profile and news bloomberg markets. The 84mm device has been created by ukbased flexible electronics innovator flexenable formerly plastic logic. The company offers plastic displays of various sizes and in both color and monochrome.
Merck and flexenable which was fissioned from plastic logic last week have unveiled a new flexible lcd display demonstrator. In september 2011 the company announced plastic logic 100 aimed to bring etextbooks to russian schools. Plastic logic 100 unveiled, set to bring etextbooks to russian. Plastic logic ltd flexenable ltd original assignee plastic logic ltd priority date the priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. In order to bring this to market they are in the process of opening up a manufacturing hub in. Flexenable has created a fullcolour flexible olcd screen source.
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. Previously dean worked for boc edwards, nortel networks, integrated optical components ltd and gec. Henning sirringhaus is chief scientistcofounder at plastic logic gmbh. Plastic logics spectacular rebirth business weekly. May 17, 2012 tweet share post on the surface, plastic logic had it all. Flexenable has been created from plastic logic s people and its technology assets in cambridge, uk. When the british company first emerged 12 years ago, it looked as if it could become a technology giant. An example of a flexible display, created by plastic logic.
Plastic logic s manufacturing entity in dresden, germany, which manufactures and sells a range of flexible, electrophoretic displays epd, will now be called plastic logic germany, leaving flexenable as an independent uk company. This is plastic logic ebook by gizmodo on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. The plastic logic reader supports a full range of business document formats, such as microsoft word, excel and powerpoint, and adobe pdfs, as well as newspapers, periodicals and books. Jan 21, 2016 flexenable used to be plastic logic and isorg reveal the worlds first large area flexible fingerprint sensor on plastic designed for biometric applications. Plastic logic revealed a big shift in strategy last month, pushing its own flexible plastic based epaper displays for thirdparty products, and its new videocapable color panels are top of the.
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