2024 Exhibitors/Sponsors

Exhibitors / Sponsors 2024 (tentative list)

Exhibitors 2024

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!

Heidelberg Instruments

Established in 1984, trusted in more than 50 countries with over 1,400 systems installed worldwide, Heidelberg Instruments is a global leader in design, development, and production of high-precision laser lithography systems, maskless aligners, and nanofabrication systems. Our tools range from tabletop solutions to high-end photomask manufacturing equipment and cater to a variety of needs. Our systems enable a broad spectrum of surface structuring on the micro- and nanoscale, including 2D-patterning, the creation of 2.5D features by Grayscale lithography, and 3D structuring through Two-Photon Polymerization. Due to their flexibility, our systems are valuable assets to the most renowned universities and R&D institutes worldwide, as well as industry production facilities. Typical fields of applications are in micro-optics and photonics, electronics, advanced packaging, quantum devices, MEMS, microfluidics, 2D materials, photomask production, and many others.

Visit www.heidelberg-instruments.com to find out more!

HOPE-A

HOPE-A is the Greek Industry Association which coordinates the activities of industrial and research organizations in Greece in the multi-billion rapidly evolving field of Flexible Organic & Printed Electronics (OEs) and strengthens their goals. HOPE-A covers the entire value chain of OE Products and Services in Green Energy, Lighting, Electronics, Automotive, Smart Buildings, Greenhouses, Intelligent Packaging, Wearables, IoT e.t.c.

The scope of HOPE-A is to:

Coordinate network of companies in OE's applications
Develop strong links between R&D&I, technology and business
Generate new technologies, applications, roadmap and reports
Enhance the reputation of the Sector
Support members to new markets and trade-shows
Represent members to International authorities
Distribute information from the markets
Attract investments in OEs
Collaboration with OEs global organizations and companies
Organize Exhibitions, Workshops, Seminars and training activities

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

KETMarket GmbH

KETMarket was founded in November 2021 and started business operation in October 2022. Our mission is to radically simplify and accelerate the collabo¬ration between companies, research organizations, and investors. Our multilingual digital innovation marketplace provides easy access to technologies, innovation services, knowledge, and project partners all over Europe. Using that data and our comprehensive knowledge in thin film and nano technologies, we plan and coordinate complex research & development activities for SME and industry from the idea to the market-ready products. KETMarket is your one-stop for all innovation and R&D services including technology consulting, product and process development, business innovation support and access to funding and finance.

Visit www.ketmarket.eu to find out more!

KP Technology

Kelvin Probe and Air Photoemission Spectroscopy Specialists.

Strengthen your materials characterisation capabilities with KP Technology multi-mode measurement systems for Air Photoemission Spectroscopy. Our systems measure work function, volta potential, surface photovoltage, surface photovoltage spectroscopy, Ionisation Potential (IP), Valence Band (HOMO) and Conduction Band (LUMO) energy bands quickly and easily in ambient, controlled atmosphere and UHV environments.

Visit our booth to find out how these essential investigative tools can support and further your research.

Visit www.kelvinprobe.com to find out more!

MUSICODE H2020 Project

The MUSICODE project (“an experimentally-validated multi-scale materials, process and device modelling & design platform enabling non-expert access to open innovation in the Organic and Large Area Electronics Industry”) aims to create a multiscale materials-process-device modelling platform for the organic and large area electronics (OLAE) industry, featuring integrated data management, ontology-based semantic interoperability across modelling scales and user-friendly workflow design tools, all in close collaboration with academic labs and industrial pilot-lines to adopt and validate industry-accepted modelling protocols. The project will develop a business plan to ensure its sustainability and exploitation with the ambition to become the central open innovation hub for the OLAE industry and a paradigm for cross-domain applications.

MUSICODE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Call DT-NMBP-11-2020 “Open Innovation Platform for Materials Modelling”, with 11 top European partners from academia and industry participating in the project (duration 2021-2024, total EU funding €4,992,000.00).

Visit www.musicode.eu 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 670 individual members (~1500 cluster members) worldwide, including Companies, Research Institutes, University Labs, Hospitals etc.

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

Organic Electronic Technologies (OET)

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!

PRINTUP INSTITUTE

PRINTUP INSTITUTE is a new model that aims to develop a value chain in the field of printed electronics for health, from biomolecular design to the supply of medical devices for healthcare professionals. PRINTUP INSTITUTE will federate, structure, and animate the entire value chain.

Different clusters have been set up on the sphere of PRINTUP INSTITUTE:

Fundamental research, TRL 1 and 2 at the state of the art, and finalized research, TRL 3 to 5 on functional devices. Molecular and biomolecular developments, surface chemistry, design of printed sensors.
Technological platform with researchers (chemistry, physics, biotechnologies) and equipment, particularly in micro and nano-molecular formulation, printing, characterization and small-scale demonstrators.
Project management for electronics partners for connectivity and software solutions and manufacturers partners in the printed electronics or health industry.
Animation of the entire value chain: organization of networking workshops and events with Research - Industry - Health Professionals, provision of international market watch available, stands at trade shows in the sector.
Training organization on Printed electronics (formulations, design of biomolecular formulations, substrates, methods of printing electronics) and the regulatory constraints for manufacturers in the health sector.

Visit www.printupinstitute.fr to find out more!

Research Committee of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) through its Research Committee participates in the 13th NANOTEXNOLOGY Expo 2023 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!

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 2024

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