OE-A Hosts Printed Electronics Summit in Germany

The growing importance of an industry can be defined by the increasing number of educational and business events that it supports. Printed electronics certainly has proven that it is attracting substantial global attention in recent years by the number of gatherings and participating companies. Next month the doors will open on another industry forum – LOPE-C – providing another opportunity for high-level contacts and education.

LOPE-C – the Large-area Organic and Printed Electronics Convention – will take place June 23-25 at the Congress Center, Messe Frankfurt, Germany. The event is sponsored by the Organic Electronics Association (OE-A). “Organic and printed electronics will become one of the most significant technologies of the next several decades,” says Wolfgang Mildner, Chairman of the OE-A. “LOPE-C will take place annually in order to satisfy the growing information needs of end users, manufacturers and developers.”

Andrew Hannah, vice chairman of the OE-A and CEO of USA-based Plextronics, says, “As the key industry association for organic electronics, it is our pleasure to host an international trade conference of this quality. The more collaboration we can facilitate, the faster our industry will develop.”

Parallel to the conference, an exhibition will take place where companies and R&D institutes can present their products and solutions for end users from the fields of energy production, consumer goods, packaging, logistics and medical technology, to name a few. Organic electronics can, for example, be used as flexible solar cells, printed radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, rollable displays, energy-efficient lighting or disposable diagnostic devices.

OE-A will partner with Messe Frankfurt Ausstellungen GmbH (MFA) in Wiesbaden for this event. MFA is a 100 percent subsidiary of Messe Frankfurt and will be responsible for the complete organization and marketing of LOPE-C.

OE-A General Manager Klaus Hecker says he is looking forward to working with MFA. “In OE-A and MFA we have two specialists that will effectively support this emerging industry as it develops into an important market in the future.”