AFRY licenses TactoTek’s in-mould structural electronics for vehicle programmes
The Swedish engineering consultancy becomes an IMSE engineering partner, giving TactoTek its first European design studio for smart-surface work with carmakers.
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Roll-to-roll, sheet-to-sheet, additive equipment, yield engineering and capacity economics — the tools that turn materials into products.
Taiwan’s panel makers pitch their glass lines to the chip-packaging industry
At SEMICON Taiwan, AUO showed glass core substrates made with Corning glass, and Innolux promoted a 620 × 750 mm RDL substrate made on repurposed G3.5 display lines.
SEMICON India opens on 17 September with fabs and advanced packaging on the agenda
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates the fifth edition in New Delhi. Organisers expect hundreds of exhibitors, though the published figures do not agree.
OE-A brings a European delegation to Bengaluru for a 17 September symposium
Eight speakers from European industry and academia, a free half-day programme co-organised with VDMA India, and a registration deadline of 11 September.
In-mould electronics leaves the concept car for production trim
Print the circuit flat, thermoform it, back-injection-mould it, and a control panel becomes a single part. The idea has been sound for a decade; the forming yield is what has finally moved.
Laser-induced graphene moves from lab curiosity to production line
Roll-to-roll LIG lines are shipping as toolmakers chase flexible-sensor and supercapacitor volume — the manufacturing process shedding its lab-demo reputation.
Roll-to-roll hits its stride as toolmakers chase flexible-backplane volumes
R2R equipment spending is rising on the back of flexible display and sensor volume. We look at where the tool orders are landing, and why registration accuracy — not throughput — remains the industry's hard problem.
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