2025 Exhibitors/Sponsors

Exhibitors 2025 (tentative list)

Nanotechnology Lab LTFN

The Nanotechnology Lab LTFN (Lab for Thin Films - Nanobiomaterials - Nanosystems & Nanometrology), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is an internationally acknowledged specialist in Organic Electronics (OEs), Thin Films and Nanomaterials Technology (vacuum, printing), Nanomedicine, Nanometrology, Real-time/In-line precision Metrology, Automation and Digital Manufacturing.

LTFN has established the Center of Organic & Printed Electronics - Hellas (COPE-H), for cutting-edge Research and Manufacturing of OE Devices for applications in Energy, Displays, Lighting, Electronics, Automotive, NanoBiomedicine, Smart Textiles and Wearables, IoT, Smart Food Packaging, Greenhouses, etc.

LTFN is a world-class excellence entity in various research fields, with a Lab space area of 2000 m2, including clean room facilities of 600 m2 and state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, 10 Pilot Lines and several TestBed facilities, combined with strong activity in R&D Projects and dynamic collaborations with SMEs, industry and academia. LTFN is a Digital Innovation Hub, offering open access to interested entities (Academia, Research, SMEs, Industries), while serving as an One-Stop-Shop for SMEs for technology transfer, proof-of-concept and incubation.

The main research activities of the LTFN are focused on the following topics:

Organic Electronics & Photonics
Thin Films & Nanobiomaterials Technology
Nanoengineering & Surface Engineering
Nanomedicine & Nanobiotechnology
Optical Technology & Nanometrology
Digital Nanomanufacturing
Computational & Modeling at Nanoscale

Visit www.ltfn.gr to find out more!

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is the largest university in Greece. The main campus is located in the centre of the city of Thessaloniki, and covers an area of about 33.4 hectares. It comprises 10 faculties which consist of 40 schools and 1 single-School Faculty.

Some educational and administrative facilities are located off campus for practical and operational reasons. A number of these facilities are located outside the city of Thessaloniki or even in other cities.

About 88.283 students study at the Aristotle University, 77.198 in undergraduate programmes and 6.588 in postgraduate programmes. There are also 3.952 at Doctoral level.

Visit www.auth.gr to find out more!

BL Nanobiomed

BL Nanobiomed is a high tech company that applies Nanomedical Technologies to deal with unmet Clinical needs.

At BL Nanobiomed we apply nanotechnology to manufacture innovative, high added value products and we are committed to working for the patient’s benefit. Our mission is to develop novel nanomedical technologies and products to overcome clinical hurdles in the prevention, diagnosis and therapy of diseases. Our Technology focuses on nanoparticles for targeted therapeutics, antimicrobial, biosensing activities and nanofilters for advanced filtration at nanoscale level. Our fully equipped lab offers services in the design and development of new manufacturing protocols for nanomaterials, high resolution design and 3D printing of scaffolds and nano-characterization studies.

Visit www.bl-nanobiomed.com to find out more!

Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH

More than 40 years of success in machinery construction for coating, printing and laminating systems. Our corporate vision of lab2fab (from small samples to the finished product) forms the basis for tapping new markets and creating new products. It is the primary focus of our service to our customers.

Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH designs and produces Sheet-to-Sheet and Roll-to-Roll equipment for the coating, printing and laminating sectors.

For more than 40 years Coatema has designed and built laboratory equipment and pilot/production plants for traditional markets such as the textile sector and the materials converting market.

The laboratory and pilot machinery product lines were expanded more than 20 years ago making Coatema a market leader in emerging technologies such as advanced batteries, solar, prepregs, medical and pharmaceuticals, fuel cells and printed electronics. New and evolving technologies are a primary focus of Coatema's fab2lab concept, offering significant advantages to customers wanting to upscale initial prototypes all the way to production of mature, marketable products.

Coatema customers can choose from a wide range of lab2fab services for high-tech processes, including the world's largest R&D centre for coating, printing and laminating. Coatema also participates in numerous research projects around the world including a global research network for new technologies requiring the disciplines of coating, printing and laminating. One aspect of this is the annual international coating conference that takes place in Dormagen.

Coatema has been part of Altona-Technologie-Holding GmbH since 2018. The ATH group consists of market-leading machinery design and building companies in the coating, printing, laminating and drying sectors. The ATH group offers one of the most extensive product profiles available from a single source. The Coatema lab2fab approach and sister company Kroenert GmbH fab2lab concept combine to offer customers benefits from a broad market perspective. Thanks to the two R&D centres and expertise ranging from small plants to large high-speed production systems, customers are able to access solutions and can see direct proof through trials and demonstrations at two R&D centres.

In recent years Coatema has entered into joint ventures in the development of new technologies and markets. As an example, our collaboration with the brand COMEDCO which applies to the medicine sector and pharmaceuticals market. We share the brand with the company Optima, provides innovative machinery solutions and more in the field of oral films and transdermal patches. Our shared brand COMEDCO opens the path to vertical value creation for customers in a way that would not be possible by a single company alone.

Coatema’s worldwide sales and distribution network, supplies local support for our products for coating, printing and laminating.

Visit www.coatema.de to find out more!

COPE-Nano HEU Project

COPE-Nano will create a new, autonomous, and self-sustained Centre of Excellence for FPEs & Nanotechnologies by leveraging the existing Nanotechnology Ecosystem of LTFN, and will establish it as leader in EU in basic, applied and industrial research in these rapidly emerging fields for applications in Advanced Materials, Energy, Electronics, ICT, Medicine, Agriculture.

Visit www.cope-nano.eu to find out more!

Flex2Energy HEU Project

Flex2Energy is a 48-month project with an ambitious goal to manufacture reliable Integrated Photovoltaics (IPVs) by developing an Automated R2R (Roll-to-Roll) Manufacturing Line for Organic PVs (OPVs).

The Manufacturing Line consists of the R2R Printing & Automated Assembly Machines, with robust and adaptive in-line metrologies for quality control and Artificial Intelligence (AI) analysis implementing industry 4.0 concepts.

The IPVs will be produced in custom designs complying to the requirements of use in buildings, greenhouses for energy production & crop harvesting and automotive EV car roofs, to minimize landscape and to facilitate energy positive buildings. The IPV products will be installed in dedicated business cases (BIPVs, Agri-PVs, VIPVs) and will be evaluated in terms of performance, durability and social and industrial acceptance.

Visit www.flex2energy.eu to find out more!

HOPE-A Hellenic Organic and Printed Electronics Association

HOPE-A (Hellenic Organic and Printed Electronics Association) is the leading Greek Industry Association dedicated to coordinating the activities of industrial and research organizations in Greece within the rapidly evolving, multi-billion-euro field of Flexible, Organic, and Printed Electronics (OEs). HOPE-A supports and strengthens the efforts of its members across the entire value chain of OE products and services, including applications in Green Energy, Lighting, Electronics, Automotive, Smart Buildings, Greenhouses, Intelligent Packaging, Wearables, and more.

HOPE-A's mission includes:

Building strong connections between Research, Development, Innovation (R&D&I), and Business
Driving the development of new technologies and applications
Supporting its members in accessing new markets and participating in international trade shows
Representing member interests before international authorities and organizations
Disseminating valuable market information to its network
Attracting investments into Flexible and Printed Electronics (FPEs) and their applications
Fostering collaboration with global entities in the FPE sector
Organizing exhibitions, workshops, and networking events"

Visit www.hope-a.com to find out more!

IONPLUS

IONPLUS Company, which is based in Thessaloniki, Greece, was established in 1992 and has as its main target the promotion and full technical support of analytical and industrial hi-tech equipment. Maximal contribution to the technological improvement and development of our clients consist our aim and commitment. The main sectors on which our activities are focused are:

Industry (Food, Drink, Petroleum, Medicine, Chemical, Paint, Packaging)
Environmental Technology
Research and Quality Control Institutes
Hospitals
University

Visit www.ionplus.gr to find out more!

LinkZill Ltd.

LinkZill was founded in January 2019, headquartered in Hangzhou, China, with a B&D center in Cambridge, UK. We are a fabless designer and supplier of thin-film transistor (TFT) for a variety of applications in sensing, display, biotech and life sciences.

For optoelectronic applications, the product matrix of LinkZill includes TFT sensing and display array chips with their compatible readout and driving systems, respectively. These products have been widely used for state-of-the-art research such as Perovskite X-ray sensing, infrared sensing, finger/palm-print sensing, gas/pressure sensing, Perovskite LEDs, quantum-dot LEDs and micro-LEDs. LinkZill also provides customized TFT design and manufacturing with customer’s choice of TFT type (a-Si, IGZO, LTPS, OTFT, etc.), substrates (glass, plastic) and size (up to G6.5 line).

LinkZill also combines TFT semiconductor technology with life sciences through our TFT bio-chip platform, and has achieved industrial applications in high-throughput DNA synthesis, precise biological droplet manipulation, in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) and bio-sensing.

So far, LinkZill has served more than 300 companies, universities and research institutes worldwide with our core TFT chip technology, and has accumulated technical capabilities and experience from TFT chip design, simulation, process to system integration.

Visit www.linkzill.com to find out more!

Nano-Net

Nano|Net is an initiative for the promotion of communication and collaboration between research and business organizations activated in the fields of Nano-Bio-Technologies. Its' main purpose is to reinforce and promote Nanotechnologies in Greece, Europe and Worldwide, through an interscientific approach. Nano|Net started in 2003 from Nanotechnology Lab LTFN - AUTh, counting more than 750 individual members (~1700 cluster members) worldwide, including Companies, Research Institutes, University Labs, Hospitals etc.

Visit www.nano-net.gr to find out more!

NANO@HMU, Institute of Emerging Technologies, Hellenic Mediterranean University

The Nanomaterials for Emerging Devices (Nano@HMU) group, is a research unit within the Institute of Emerging Technologies of the Hellenic Mediterranean University, is dedicated to revolutionizing electronic and energy devices. With a focus on solution processable nanomaterials, the group is renowned for its ground-breaking work on interfacial engineering of perovskite and organic solar cells, achieving impressive enhancements in both performance and stability. In fact, Nano@HMU has even established its own solar testbed to evaluate photovoltaic modules and systems both indoor and outdoor. In addition, the group possesses unparalleled expertise in formulating and adjusting the optoelectronic properties of solution processable graphene and other 2D crystals, as well as their functionalization and doping for fine tuning of their energy levels and work-function. Furthermore, Nano@HMU develops printable and flexible electronic devices, such as humidity sensors, pressure sensors, light sensors and memristors for complex neuromorphic computations.

The group coordinates the interinstitutional postgraduate programme “MSc in Nanotechnology for Energy Applications" developed in the framework of an Erasmus LLP project, with the participation of the University of Crete and the Foundation of Research & Technology and the international conference “Nanotechnologies & Bionanosciences".

Visit www.nanohmu.gr to find out more!

OET Energy Technologies

Organic Electronic Technologies (ΟΕΤ) is a world leader in roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing and technologies for flexible Organic and Printed Electronics (OEs) holding more than 30 years of experience.

OET is a High-Tech company involved in the design, thin films manufacturing processes and production of innovative flexible Organic Printed Photovoltaic (OPV) and Organic LED (OLED) technologies.

Optical precision metrology and pulsed laser for patterning tools and their integration in OPV production line processes are also a main activity of the company.

OET, through its latest successful R&D developments, has implemented an innovative OPV Panel which is differentiated from competitors for its high transparent and uniform membrane (with minimum discontinuities instead of the existing stripe-patterned panels). This product is most suitable and attractive for the Buildings (BIOPV) segment because of its unique aesthetics design and its outstanding performance and payback period.

OET’s unique core competencies include:

R2R manufacturing and mass production of fully printed OPVs
Process technologies and manufacturing automations for flexible OPVs and OLEDs
In-line optical metrologies and quality control tools for process reliability and manufacturability
In-line Pulsed Laser patterning tools for minimal losses and high quality and performance devices at low T
Turn-key Solutions for design and development of highly performing OPV and OLED applications

OET invests in young professionals with high expertise in rising and contemporary scientific fields, while matchmaking its human assets with established business professionals.

Visit www.oe-technologies.com to find out more!

Park Systems

Park Systems Corporation (www.parksystems.com) is a leading provider of nanoscale microscopy and metrology solutions. The company's comprehensive product line includes atomic force microscopy (AFM), white light interferometry (WLI), nano infrared spectroscopy (NanoIR), imaging spectroscopic ellipsometry (ISE), active vibration isolation (AVI) systems and Digital Holographic Microscopy (DHM).

These solutions are widely used in scientific research, nanoscale engineering, semiconductor manufacturing, display technology, advanced packaging and quality assurance.

Park Systems' commitment to excellence has made it the preferred choice for nanometrology products among leading semiconductor companies, top research universities and national laboratories. Renowned for its reliable, high performance microscopes and strong customer support, Park Systems is the manufacturer that has built a strong relationship with its users over time!

Since 2008, Schaefer SouthEast Europe (www.schaefer-tec.ro) is the exclusive distributor of Park Systems in South East Europe, responsible for strong local customer and application support, installations, training in a transparent collaboration with the manufacturer.

Visit www.parksystems.com to find out more!

Research Committee of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) through its Research Committee participates in the 15th NANOTEXNOLOGY Expo 2025 with laboratories that are active in Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies.

During the last 12 years, more than 10000 research projects have been implemented in AUTh, whereas about 140 of them were related with Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Organic Electronics & Nanomedicine.

The Research Committee of AUTh is the legal body responsible for the administration of funded projects and other related services which are provided by the members of the AUTh. The Research Committee has an extensive experience in the management of research projects funded by national, European, and international public and private organizations.

Visit www.rc.auth.gr to find out more!

SEMILAB Zrt

SEMILAB is a leading supplier of advanced metrology equipment for material and process control in the microelectronic, display, photovoltaic and printed electronics industries, for both R&D, manufacturing and production control. Measurement techniques provide complex optical and electrical characterization of a wide range of materials and thin films in single or multi-layer structures.

Process control equipment can be implemented offline with appropriate sampling with small manual type tools, in-line in the production flow with fully automated systems and high resolution and speed, or even integrated into manufacturing equipment, such as roll-to-roll coaters or very large area like flat panel display.

Visit www.semilab.com to find out more!

Transfer Multisort Elektronik Sp, z o.o.

Over 30 years we have been co-creating the electronic components market. We combine our global range of business with family way of management. We believe in innovative solutions, which we support by solid business basis. If you are looking for a reliable supplier for your company or your partner, who will help you reach your customers all over the world – you have just found it.

Visit www.tme.eu to find out more!

VK NANO

Led by Dr Varvara Karagkiozaki, VK NANO revolutionizes medcare & skincare, by applying cutting-edge nanomed practices into premium products and services, infused in two brands:
Nanotouche^®, the future proof dermacare cosmetics brand, empowered by a novel anti-oxidant formula for deep skin penetration, targeting cells regeneration, skin rejuvenation and illumination. Nanomed Clinics, the unique well-being clinics concept, transforming traditional care through a groundbreaking innovative approach that seamlessly blends nanomedicine and regenerative wellness solutions.

Visit www.vknano.com to find out more!

VMVLA Science and Technology Committee

The Committee on Science and Technology Law of the Virginia Mountain Valley Lawyers Alliance (VMVLA) welcomes this opportunity to bring principles of law to scientific researchers and to answer questions posed by researchers in nanoscience about entrepreneurship, innovation, nanoregulation of materials, international trade, global health protections and the right things for "keeping your business alive". Our team of lawyers is also engaged in the development of continuing legal education for ongoing credit to maintain current accreditation for over 1,500 practicing lawyers in our region and throughout the world.

Visit www.virginia-mountain-valley-lawyers-alliance.org to find out more!

Sponsors 2025 (tentative list)

Gold Sponsor

OET Energy Technologies

OET is a High-Tech company involved in the design, thin films manufacturing processes and production of innovative flexible Organic Printed Photovoltaic (OPV) and Organic LED (OLED) technologies.

Optical precision metrology and pulsed laser for patterning tools and their integration in OPV production line processes are also a main activity of the company.

OET’s unique core competencies include:

R2R manufacturing and mass production of fully printed OPVs
Process technologies and manufacturing automations for flexible OPVs and OLEDs
In-line optical metrologies and quality control tools for process reliability and manufacturability
In-line Pulsed Laser patterning tools for minimal losses and high quality and performance devices at low T
Turn-key Solutions for design and development of highly performing OPV and OLED applications

OET invests in young professionals with high expertise in rising and contemporary scientific fields, while matchmaking its human assets with established business professionals.

Visit www.oe-technologies.com to find out more!

Silver Sponsor

BL Nanobiomed

BL Nanobiomed is a high tech company that applies Nanomedical Technologies to deal with unmet Clinical needs.

Visit www.bl-nanobiomed.com to find out more!

Bronze Sponsor

American Elements

American Elements' catalog of more than 35,000 products makes it the world’s largest manufacturer devoted exclusively to advanced materials in both industrial bulk and laboratory/research quantities. American Elements provides fundamental expertise in the properties, applications, and cost-effective manufacturing of advanced and engineered materials, including ultra high purity refining and nanoscale materials, allowing us to meet the needs of thousands of global manufacturers (including over 30% of the Fortune 50 and all U.S. national laboratories & military branches) in a wide range of industry fields, including energy, electronics, aerospace, defense, automotive, optics, and green technology.

Visit www.americanelements.com to find out more!

Bronze Sponsor

Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH

Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH designs and produces Sheet-to-Sheet and Roll-to-Roll equipment for the coating, printing and laminating sectors.

For more than 40 years Coatema has designed and built laboratory equipment and pilot/production plants for traditional markets such as the textile sector and the materials converting market.

Coatema’s worldwide sales and distribution network, supplies local support for our products for coating, printing and laminating.

Visit www.coatema.de to find out more!