UK-based inkjet technology firm Xennia has joined forces with Portuguese electrochromic display start-up Ynvisible, to optimise inks for the industrial printing of its electronic ink displays.
Xennia will optimise the chemical formulations of Ynvisible's inks, enabling rapid industrialisation of its displays, and guaranteed quality and efficiency of the inks in large-scale printing processes.
Xennia, a subsidiary of Dutch textiles and composite materials producer Royal TenCate, supplies systems, inks and other inkjet hardware and software to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) looking to incorporate industrial inkjet technology into their operations.
Xennia managing director Alan Hudd thinks the collaboration, which initially contracts Xennia to help Yvisible work through technical issues to produce the displays using inkjet deposition, has long-term potential.
Helping hand
Ynvisible will assume the role of technology provider for end clients in industries such as packaging, advertising and print media and communications. Xennia will act as inkjet technology enabler, supplying complete deposition solutions based on inks and industrial printing modules.
Xennia was set up in 1996 and works across diverse industries including textiles, packaging, ceramics and printed electronics.
Earlier this month Ynvisible told +Plastic Electronics it was preparing to trial its displays in point-of-sale advertising applications with customers in Europe, aiming to scale up production late 2011 or early 2012.
The start-up, which listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in February 2011, is able to leverage a network comprising Portugal's leading R&D agencies and industrial firms.
Ynvisible's technology can provide brand owners and print communication providers with affordable interactive displays on a range of substrates and media.
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Ynvisible
The provider of electrochromic displays is developing for applications in point-of-sale advertising
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Xennia
The UK-based company produces inkjet printing technology. It is targeting printed electronics applications as a growth area
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Ynvisible targets point-of-sale with electrochromic display technology
Point-of-sale advertising will likely be the first commercial application for an interactive electrochromic display being developed by Portuguese start-up Ynvisible
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