NexTStar Automated Optical Inspection System to Be Integrated Into Plastic Logic Limited Manufacturing Line
January 22 2008 - 7:00AM
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AUSTIN, TX , are pleased to announce that plastic electronics
leader, Plastic Logic Limited, has placed a follow-up order with
the company for NexTStar(TM), a stand-alone automated optical
inspection system (AOI). The NexTStar will be incorporated into
Plastic Logic's manufacturing line of flexible organic active
matrix displays.
The NexTStar employs highly accurate and sensitive detection of
problem-causing particles during flat panel display (FPD)
manufacture. The system represents breakthrough performance in FPD
defect detection because of its ability to identify defects as
small as 300 nanometers with its proprietary NanoScan(TM)
technology.
Prior to placing an order for NexTStar, Plastic Logic purchased
the NexTech FAS Advantage IV Coating Solution, a fully-automated,
integrated coating line. Both purchases are to be used in Plastic
Logic's manufacturing line of flexible organic active matrix
displays being developed for commercial portable electronic reader
devices.
Nick Cousins, the director of technology transfer for Plastic
Logic, commented, "NexTech FAS is the ideal partner for Plastic
Logic; they are a company with a range of technologies ideally
suited to our developing process and are of size to respond quickly
to our demanding requirements."
About Plastic Logic
Plastic Logic is a leading developer of plastic electronics -- a
new technology for manufacturing (or printing) electronics. The
Plastic Logic approach solves the critical issues in manufacturing
high resolution transistor arrays on flexible plastic substrates by
using a low temperature process without mask alignment that is
scaleable for large area, high volume and low cost.
This enables radical new product concepts in a wide range of
applications including flexible displays and sensors. Independent
experts from IDTechEx forecast plastic electronics will be a $30
billion industry by 2015, and could reach as much as $250 billion
by 2025.
Plastic Logic was spun out of Cambridge University in 2000 to
build on 10 years of research and has a team of more than 90
employees. The company has now raised equity and venture finance
from financial and industrial investors including Amadeus Capital
Partners (UK), BASF (Germany), Bank of America (US), Dow Chemical
(US), Intel Capital (US), Morningside (Hong Kong), Merifin Capital
(Belgium), Nanotech Partners (an international nanotechnology fund
established principally by Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan), Oak
Investment Partners (US), PolyTechnos Venture-Partners (Germany),
Siemens (Germany), Tudor Investment Corporation (US) and Yasuda
Enterprise Development (Japan). Other shareholders include
Cambridge Display Technology, Seiko Epson and the University of
Cambridge. Venture finance has been provided by European Technology
Ventures and European Venture Partners.
About NFJV, LLC
NFJV, LLC, doing business as "NexTech FAS," is the operating
company of NexTech Solutions, Inc. and FAS Holdings Group, LLC.
NexTech FAS is a Delaware limited liability company, headquartered
in Austin, Texas, with facilities in Dallas and Tokyo. The company
is widely recognized in the industry for the development of digital
fluid dispensing and a patented extrusion coating (spinless
coating) technology known as "FAS-Coat," which has become the
de-facto standard in the coating processes used in the manufacture
of FPDs. The company also delivers advanced metrology and
automation solutions, and is the first to deliver a turn-key
solution for manufacturing lines in both the semiconductor and FPD
industries. NexTech FAS' stock is quoted on the Pink Sheets under
the symbol NXSL. For more information, visit:
http://www.nextechfas.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release may include forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties. Any forward-looking statements and all
other statements that may be made in this news release that are not
historical facts are subject to a number of risks and
uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. Specific
risks include delays in new product development, product
performance and quality issues and the acceptance of our current
and new products by the FPD and semiconductor markets.
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