Eastman Kodak Company and UniPixel, Inc. UNXL, have entered into a
manufacturing and supply agreement to produce next-generation touch sensors
based on UniPixel's UniBoss™ multi-touch sensor film.
Under the agreement, Kodak and UniPixel will open a new manufacturing facility
within Eastman Business Park in Rochester later this year to produce touch
screen sensors for the dynamic and growing touch module market that is
predicted to more than double to $32 billion by 2018.
“Our agreement to this manufacturing and supply chain partnership with Kodak
represents another major milestone in the commercial roll-out of UniBoss and
in scaling up UniPixel's supply chain for touch module customers,” said Reed
Killion, UniPixel's president and chief executive officer. “Kodak will play a
pivotal role in the immediate, high-capacity scale-up of UniBoss touch sensor
production. Kodak's unparalleled expertise and core competencies in materials
science, deposition technologies and large-scale commercialization and
manufacturing allow us to vertically integrate the use of base materials that
are utilized in the manufacturing process, thus offering the most synergistic
and aligned infrastructure in the world as it relates to our flexible printed
electronics.”
Antonio M. Perez, Kodak's chairman and chief executive officer, said: “This
agreement with UniPixel is a major advance for Kodak's functional printing
initiative…Functional printing is a key growth area for Commercial Imaging…and
Commercial Imaging is Kodak's future. In UniPixel, we have linked-up with an
innovative and effective partner, and Kodak brings to the relationship
proprietary technologies that enable printing systems to deposit materials on
a wide variety of substrates with a high degree of accuracy, precision,
repeatability and speed. With this agreement, we continue to execute on our
strategy to develop a roadmap of offerings that answers the growing market
need for alternative touch sensor solutions.”
UniPixel and Kodak have already begun to construct a state-of-the-art
manufacturing and testing facility with nearly 100,000 square feet of
manufacturing space for the UniBoss roll-to-roll printing and plating lines.
In 2013, $24 million will be allocated to improve and equip the facility,
which includes the installation of two printing lines and 15 plating lines.
Located in Bldg. 326 of Kodak's Eastman Business Park, a more than 1,000 acre
technology center and industrial complex, the site provides an established
infrastructure for roll-to-roll manufacturing and offers significant space for
capacity expansion to meet the anticipated growth and demand for UniBoss touch
sensors.
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