TEXTILES * PRINTED ELECTRONICS * FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS * PRODUCT DECORATION
Sheraton Hotel & Spa, Lisbon, Portugal
Ink jet has been a phenomenon, becoming the dominant print technology for the home, wide format graphics and outdoor graphics. Now it is challenging traditional print technologies such as offset litho, flexo and gravure in commercial printing, labelling and narrow web markets.
So, what’s next? Ink jet has been proposed for many non-graphics applications but is it really ready and what does the market need? What are the opportunities for current suppliers to the ink jet industry in these emerging markets?
Designed for business managers and sales and marketing executives, sessions at the Ink Jet Outlook seminar will explore the market potential and technology requirements for four major emerging markets for ink jet – textiles, product decoration, printed electronics and functional materials.
12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m. Registration
2:00 p.m. Opening session
WELCOME
Alvin G. Keene, President, Information Management Institute, Inc., Carrabassett Valley, Maine, USA
Dr John Provost, Consultant and Technical Editor Digital Textile magazine, Manchester, UK
• Overview of the global textile market
• Textile printing market dynamics
• Digital textile printing - market segmentation
• Digital textile printing - advantages and value proposition
• Textile ink jet technology - colorants, ink types, pre-treatment and post-treatment technologies
• Overview of major chemistry suppliers
• Development of textile ink technology for specific print heads
• The ink value chain and business models
• Barriers to entry for new players into the digital textile market
• Current digital textile printing machinery developments, highlighting the major systems integrators and print head manufacturers active in the digital textile market
• Future trends and opportunities in digital textile printing
Dr John ProvostConsultant and Technical Editor Digital Textile magazine, Manchester, UK
Dr John Provost has over 27 years experience in industrial ink jet printing and digital textile printing with major International chemical companies, including, ICI, Zeneca, Avecia Ink Jet Ltd and BASF AG. He has worked closely with major print head OEM’s and machinery systems integrators in developing colorants, textile ink jet inks and textile pre-treatment technology and has extensive experience of system integration and commercial development of Digital Textile Printing systems.
Since 2006 he have been an international digital textile-printing consultant with a client base in Europe and the Far East. In January 2009 he also became the Technical Editor of Digital Textile magazine, the only magazine specialising in Digital Textiles.
In 2009, he was co-awarded the “Millson” award for invention for developments in the Digital Textile Printing area by the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC).
6:00 - 7:00 p.m. Reception
Tuesday 26th October, 2010
9:00 a.m.
Dr Alan Hudd, Managing Director, Xennia Technology Ltd, Letchworth, UK
• Production line and 3D product decoration
• Range of applications including
- Ceramic tiles and ceramic ware
- Flooring
- Wall coverings
- Furniture laminates
- Architectural glass
- Automotive parts
- Consumer parts
• Market drivers and benefits of inkjet
• Technology pre-qualifiers
- Software, image quality and printed substrate durability
• Key application drivers
- Chemistry and productivity
• Commercial proposition, value chain and prospects
Dr Alan L HuddManaging Director, Xennia Technology Limited, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, UK
In 1996, Dr. Hudd founded Xennia Technology, the world’s first independent contract ink jet technology house dedicated to the industrial and office inkjet industries.
Since then, Dr. Hudd has grown Xennia into a leading player in the rapidly emerging market for industrial inkjet technologies. Under Dr. Hudd, Xennia has developed a unique set of inkjet chemistry, engineering and problem solving capabilities that has resulted in a number of important technology innovations, especially in the field of inkjet dispensing of difficult materials.
Xennia is the world’s leading chemistry driven industrial inkjet integrator. Xennia provides a complete contract R&D service to support the development of a new application. Xennia supplies printers and inks for production line solutions to OEM’s and end-users across a range of industrial applications. Xennia is part of the Royal Tencate Group.
Matti Mäntysalo, Senior Researcher, Department of Electronics, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
• Overview and introduction to printed electronics
• Printed electronics – markets and opportunities
- Tracks
- Passives
- Transistors
- RFID
• Digital printing in printed electronics – methods
• Digital printing in printed electronics - materials and processing
• Inkjet technology – advantages
• Future trends and opportunities in printed electronics
Matti MäntysaloSenior Researcher, Department of Electronics, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Matti Mäntysalo received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Tampere University of Technology, Finland, in 2004, and is currently finalizing his Ph.D. degree at TUT. At the present, he is managing an industrial-academic project. His research interests are electronic miniturization and integration technologies, especially printable electronics and 3D structures.
FUNCTIONAL FLUID PRINTING
Rob Harvey, AtomJet, Cambridge, UK
• Overview of functional fluid applications
- Tissue Engineering
- Pharmaceutical
- Bio-Medical
- Energy
- Fuel cells
- Food
- Product Tracking
• Review of value chain structure and dynamics for a typical functional fluid application
- Head supply
- Fluid development and supply
- Substrate supply
- Machine integration
- End-user
• Detailed SWOT analysis for the inkjet proposition within each market
- Benefits of non-contact, digital printing
- Dependence on heads developed for graphics applications, restrictions on fluid properties and complex value chain
- Breadth of possible applications and synergy with nano-engineering
- Hyping of expectations and failure to deliver
• Future trends and opportunities for suppliers and users
Rob HarveyDirector, AtomJet, Cambridge, UK
Rob is Director of Atomjet, an ink jet development company he set up in 2010. Prior to Atomjet, Rob was responsible for transferring Xaar’s technology portfolio to a number of its licensees, notably IBM in Sweden and Brother and Kyocera in Japan. He also took a lead role in applying Xaar’s ink jet into a range of non-graphics applications including manufacture of flat panel displays, printed circuit boards, mouldless 3D plastics and tissue engineering.
He left Xaar in 2009 and is now working on a start-up venture to use an evolution of ink jet technology to manufacture precision nanoparticles for a variety of industrial and medical applications.