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“Creating Connected Communities” |
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Novel Applications for Printing Consortium “leverage |
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The (NAP-1) Consortium will bring together companies from across Europe with an interest in using analogue and digital printing processes for new and novel applications, beyond traditional text and graphics. Screen, flexo, gravure printing and digital printing technologies (such as thermal and piezo inkjet) are already being used in numerous new applications and many more are being developed.
Novel applications is defined, but not limited to:-
Printing/Dispensing – of liquid products such as scents, deodorants, medicines, flavours, security features and coatings
Manufacturing – depositing functional materials for components, sensors, flavourings, decoration and coatings
Integration – of functionality such as sensing, information and energy storage into otherwise inert products, such as clothing or packaging.
Consortium members will be drawn from technology suppliers, academic centres and application/user companies for the maximum cross-fertilisation of knowledge and needs. Together they will define areas of common ground and goals, so that the direction and focus of the consortium is driven by the members themselves for maximum value.
CfBI will invite expert speakers to consortium meetings, so that members will learn about state-of-the-art technology, recent applications, market dynamics as well as key issues, which are constraining growth and scale-up.
Developing such novel applications is complex, often requiring cross-industry expertise in e.g. electronics, biotechnology, chemistry, materials science and mass-manufacturing methods.
There is a wide range of potential novel applications for printing:-
Consortium participants with interests outlined above (and beyond) will also build relationships with each other making it easier for new ideas and initiatives to be shared in a trusting environment as well as seeding individual (and confidential) projects. By pooling costs and sharing insights, participating organisations will benefit from value and reach that would be difficult to attain in-house or by commissioning a consultant on a one-to one basis. Particularly advantageous is the potential for cross-fertilisation of application techniques from one industry application to another non-competing industry. Download the NAP1 Executive Summary here! |
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Smart packaging Photovoltaics Displays Security printing Food decoration Flavours Functional coatings Adhesives and many more..... |
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Biosensors Stem cell patterning Tissue engineering Diagnostics Drug delivery RFID Sensors Indicators Batteries |
