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Stretchable Inks: Changing the
Wearables Market and the Landscape
of Manufacturing
I-Connect007 Publisher Barry Matties and Du-
Pont's Steven Willoughby and Michael Burrows
spoke recently and discussed a new material for
wearable electronics: stretchable inks. Wearable
electronics is a fast growing sector of the elec-
tronics industry that is inspiring new and exciting
products, as well as changing the requirements for
becoming an electronics manufacturer.
American Standard Circuits Attains
UL Approval for Isola's I-Tera Laminate
and Prepreg Family
American Standard Circuits has obtained UL ap-
proval for the I-Tera laminate and prepreg family,
which includes I-Tera MT, a very low-loss laminate
engineered for high-speed digital applications
made by Isola.
OM Group Satisfied with Q1
Financial Results
"The year started off as planned and first quarter
results are in line with our expectations," said Joe
Scaminace, chairman and CEO of OM Group. "We
are making progress on our enterprise initiatives
and fully expect to see benefits from these actions
ramp up beginning later this year."
Innovative Circuits Installs New
WISE Clean Line
Innovative Circuits, of Alpharetta, Georgia, recent-
ly installed a new Wise clean line. The Chemstar
chemistry clean line will be used for surface treat-
ment preparation of inner-layer and outer-layer
panels before dry film lamination and soldermask
coating.
Isola's Astra MT Materials Successfully
Evaluated with Freescale Radar ICs
Isola Group, a market leader in copper-clad lami-
nates and dielectric prepreg materials used to fab-
ricate advanced multilayer PCBs, announced that
its Astra MT laminate materials have been success-
fully evaluated with Freescale® Semiconductor ra-
dar ICs.
Commercial Avionics Systems Market
Driven by Modernization
The commercial Avionics Systems Market was
estimated at $15,748.26 million in 2014, at a
high CAGR of 7.06% from 2014–2020, to reach
$23,715.24 million by 2020.
OKI Technology Enables Mass Production
of High-Frequency Boards
OKI Circuit Technology, an OKI group company
responsible for printed circuit board business, has
successfully developed design and mass produc-
tion technologies for multi-layer printed circuit
boards that support high speeds and high fre-
quencies based on copper coin insertion.
Military Communications Market
to Hit $40B
Armed forces throughout the globe rely on com-
munication systems to enable information sharing
and securely stay in constant contact. The role of
these systems continues to grow in importance,
with new mission areas such as the control of un-
manned vehicles and time-critical targeting that is
heavily reliant on network connectivity.
NASA Unveils Latest Technology Roadmaps
for Future Agency Needs
NASA has released the agency's 2015 technology
roadmaps, laying out the promising new technol-
ogies that will help NASA achieve its aeronautics,
science and human exploration missions for the
next 20 years, including the agency's journey to
Mars.
Global Biometrics Market Revenue
to Hit $67B by 2024
Tractica forecasts that the global biometrics mar-
ket will increase from $2.0 billion in 2015 to $14.9
billion by 2024, with a compound annual growth
rate (CAGR) of 25.3% and cumulative revenue for
the 10-year period totaling $67.8 billion.
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