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12-04 :: April/May 2012
nanotimes
Companies Facts
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yesol (DYE) published results for third quarter 2012. During the quarter Dyesol‘s vision of
DSC becoming a preeminent solar enabling techno- logy for BIPV came a step closer with the announce- ment of developments in the USA and Korea for glass based built environment applications.
In the third quarter, an improved cash flow and ba- lance sheet shows net operating monthly burn rate of $560,000 due to reduced expenditure and receipt of a $0.73 million R&D tax rebate. For the year-to-date cash burn is averaging $847,000, which compares favourably with the previous year of $940,000.
At the end of the quarter cash was $5.74 million up from $2.67 million at the end of the previous quarter, which reflects the Share Purchase Plan the company completed in March. Dyesol continues to look at options to lower cash burn while maintaining our leading technological position in DSC.
Dye Solar Cell (DSC) applications and technologi- cal advancements will be the focus of a two year joint R&D collaboration commencing in June 2012 between Singapore‘s Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N) and the Australian renewable energy firm.
Both institutions will partner up for research and de- velopment work involving low-cost DSC technology.
http://www.ntu.edu.sg http://www.dyesol.com
E E Ink®
Holdings, the leading developer and mar- keter of electronic paper display technology,
announced that their segmented display product used by the prominent contract furniture maker Casala has won the internationally acclaimed Red Dot Award for 2012. E Ink‘s technology in the Zifra numbering system for chairs has helped Casala to continue to establish itself as a leader within the con- tract design furniture industry.
Zifra is an innovative, easily updateable numbe- ring system for rows of chairs. The E Ink segmented display is located on the backrest of each chair, and is programmed and updated by a contactless scanner. This is the first commercial display device of this type to operate without batteries or a power cord, and it is made possible through E Ink‘s image stable display technology. E Ink displays require no power to maintain an image, in contrast to LCD displays, which require a continuous power charge. In the Zifra product, the display consumes power only when it refreshes to relink with a different chair, using a radio-frequency (RF) system. The marriage of this E Ink technology and (RF) system enables the display system to be incorporated with a Casala chair without the worry of the battery replacements required by almost all other display devices, in turn lowering maintenance requirements.
vonik Industries established a joint venture, Evonik Acrylics Africa (EAA), with the South
African plastics processor Ampaglas Plastics Group for extrusion of PLEXIGLAS®
sheet products. The new company is headquartered in Elandsfontein,
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