PragmatIC Printing has announced the company plans to move its technology to pilot-scale production under an agreement with the Printable Electronics Technology Centre at The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI).

PragmatIC’s pilot line will utilise CPI’s state-of-the-art facilities, and to commence operation by Q4 2012. This new facility will enable PragmatIC’s to scale up its prototyping activities to customers – including licensees for high volume production, complementary technology providers, systems integrators such as converters and labellers, and end users including major brand owners.

Scott White, Chief Executive Officer of PragmatIC Printing, stated: “We are hugely excited at taking this next tangible step towards commercial deployment of our unique technology for imprinted logic. We welcome interest from all those in the industry who want to make printed electronics products a reality, and encourage collaborative participation in our P4 initiative.”

Tom Taylor, CPI’s Director of Printable Electronics, added: “We are keen to leverage our extensive facilities and expertise to assist PragmatIC Printing in moving to commercial production. The P4 initiative is also highly complementary with other activities at CPI, in particular the Integrated Smart Systems line which is ideally suited to combine PragmatIC’s imprinted logic with other printing and electronics technologies to deliver innovative finished products.”

About PragmatIC Printing Ltd:

PragmatIC Printing enables printed logic circuits that introduce intelligence and interactivity into a wide range of products and applications, in form factors that are not possible using silicon chips. In 2010, PragmatIC acquired the printed electronics business of Nano ePrint Ltd, including its patented technology for planar nano-electronic devices that can uniquely be fabricated in a single layer of semiconductor via single-step imprint patterning. PragmatIC has extended this proven imprinting process to allow a full range of device and circuit architectures to be printed in transparent, flexible semiconductors at micron and sub-micron scale.

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