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 Plastic Logic is the outstanding leader in plastic electronics manufacturing, a revolutionary new technology for printing electronic devices. The company will be the first to apply the new technology to a fully commercial application: flexible active-matrix displays.
The company was originally spun out of Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory in 2000. The fundamental innovations created in the Cavendish and further developed and industrialised by Plastic Logic will enable new product concepts in a range of applications including flexible displays and sensors.
Plastic electronics technology has the potential to transform the economics of key segments of the electronics industry by printing electronics on thin and flexible plastic substrates using a process scaleable for large area, high volume and low cost.
Independent experts from IDTechEx forecast plastic electronics will be a $30 billion industry by 2015, and could reach as much as $250 billion by 2025.
The company’s first target market is flexible active-matrix displays for electronic readers (see products). In January 2007 it announced that it has raised $100m of equity finance to create the first fully commercial plastic electronics production facility which will start to produce display modules in 2008. The Plastic Logic approach solves the critical issues in manufacturing high resolution transistor arrays on flexible plastic substrates by using a low temperature process without mask alignment. The process, which is much simpler than conventional amorphous silicon processes, uses an eclectic mix of standard production equipment from display manufacturing and other industries.
Plastic Logic is partnering as appropriate to bring compelling and iconic consumer products to market enabled by our flexible displays. This requires a highly integrated approach to module and end product design and we are therefore building a world-class product design team.
Plastic Logic is a privately held company that has attracted investment from an impressive group of top tier financial and strategic investors.
The company has a fast growing team of more than 90 people at its headquarters and prototype manufacturing facility located in Cambridge, UK and Dresden, Germany. Its current phase of investment and rapid growth is generating a number of exciting career opportunities (see careers).
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