Press Release LOPE-C (English)

After 3 successful days, LOPE-C 2010 – international conference and exhibition - has come to a close with attendee numbers up 30% and an exhibition space up 50% on last year. From May 31 – June 2, 2010 in Frankfurt, 89 companies demonstrated, on a display area of 1,100 square meters, their newest developments and products in the field of organic and printed electronics. The conference was with 180 presentations and 850 attendees once again the forum for experts from science and industry. The facts show that the event has proved itself to become the worldwide leading conference and market place of the industry.

Digital content is mobilizing old-line print media to make them fit for the future. The rapid progress of organic and printed electronics is uniting the best of two worlds: Paper-thin color displays on flexible films, embedded in the highly appealing context of high-gloss print magazines, brochures and packaging containers, could generate value-added interfunctionalities between online and print.

LOPE-C is the international summit of the organic and printed electronics industry. Join more than 800 attendees from all over the world.

Organic and printed electronics offers novel solutions for the brand protection of consumer goods and industrial products. Electrically coded radio tags link back to the legitimate manufacturer to detect falsification at the point of sale.

Large-area, organic and printed electronics – complementing traditional silicon-based microelectronics – is at the threshold of mass production, promising a host of thin and lightweight, flexible and robust products. They are manufactured at very low cost by extending well established graphic printing techniques – layering very thin stacks of electronic components, semiconductors, insulators and barriers on polyester substrates. Functional printing enables a multitude of novel applications such as organic solar cells, OLED displays and wall-sized OLED lighting, e- readers, flat batteries, RFID tags, …