Printable Electronics Technology Centre (PETEC)

The Printable Electronics Technology Centre (PETEC) is the UK national flagship centre at NETPark for the development of revolutionary printable electronics technologies that independent forecasts predict will be a £16 billion industry by 2015.  Applications include thin flexible displays, low energy organic lighting and flexible solar cells.

PETEC provides 3,000m² of cleanroom and laboratory space with an impressive array of equipment and staff.  Capabilities include substrate preparation, materials formulation, device modelling, process development and process integration using advanced printing techniques such as inkjet, screen printing or web-based printing.

This enables companies to reduce the risks around developing production ready processes through prototyping and scale-up to low volume manufacture. The Centre provides the printable electronics community with the physical, intellectual and commercial infrastructure to accelerate the move from the lab to production.

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) manages PETEC at NETPark and collaborates with pre-eminent global innovators including De La Rue, Plastic Logic, the US Army Research Laboratory, HP Labs, and the Universities of Durham, Newcastle, Cambridge, Manchester, and Imperial College, London.

CPI is part of the UK Governments first High Value Manufacturing Technology Innovation Centre (TIC) project to assist companies involved in the development of new high value manufacturing processes and technologies.

For further information on PETEC and CPI, please visit www.uk-cpi.com