Fen Technology Ltd

Plastic Logic recently announced that it will build the first factory to manufacture plastic electronics on a commercial scale. The facility will produce flexible active-matrix display modules for ‘take anywhere, read anywhere’ electronic reader products. It will utilise Plastic Logic’s unique process to fabricate active-matrix displays that are thin, light and robust; enabling a reading experience closer to paper than any other technology.

Fen’s system architecture, hardware, software and FPGA design skills have been utilised by Plastic Logic to support the design and creation of development and test systems that allow both lab development and verification. This has enabled Plastic Logic to take a robust and portable solution to their customers and investors to demonstrate just how desirable the technology is for mass market professional and consumer products.

“Fen Technology has been instrumental in the success of a key stage of Plastic Logic’s journey towards volume manufacture” said Simon Jones, VP Product Development at Plastic Logic. “We have been working closely with Fen over two years and their creative solutions have enabled us to rapidly develop prototypes as we address exciting new product categories enabled by our flexible display technology”, Jones added.

“Fen is very pleased to be involved with Plastic Logic at such an exciting stage in their progress” said Ciaran McAleer, Business Director at Fen Technology. McAleer added “Fen have provided critical support using their extensive experience in both prototype development and volume manufacturing”.

Fen Technology undertakes all aspects of electronic product design, including complete system and sub-system design, together with hardware and software component design. Its design services span product concept to production, enabling its customers to bring better products to market faster. Fen Technology’s flexible and progressive approach allows it to react quickly to changing customer requirements.

About Fen Technology

Fen Technology Ltd is an electronic design services company located near Cambridge UK, in the heart of 'Silicon Fen'. Fen Technology Ltd provides electronic design services for Consumer, Industrial, Automotive and Medical products from concept to production.

For more information: www.fentechnology.co.uk.

About Plastic Logic

Plastic Logic is a leading developer of plastic electronics – a new technology for manufacturing (or printing) electronics. The Plastic Logic approach solves the critical issues in manufacturing high resolution transistor arrays on flexible plastic substrates by using a low temperature process without mask alignment that is scaleable for large area, high volume and low cost.

This enables radical new product concepts in a wide range of applications including flexible displays and sensors. Independent experts from IDTechEx forecast plastic electronics will be a $30 billion industry by 2015, and could reach as much as $250 billion by 2025.

Plastic Logic was spun out of Cambridge University in 2000 to build on 10 years of research and has a team of more than 60 employees. The company has now raised equity and venture finance from financial and industrial investors including Amadeus Capital Partners (UK), BASF (Germany), Bank of America (US), Dow Chemical (US), Intel Capital (US), Morningside (Hong Kong), Merifin Capital (Belgium), Nanotech Partners (an international nanotechnology fund established principally by Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan), Oak Investment Partners (US), PolyTechnos Venture-Partners (Germany), Siemens (Germany), Tudor Investment Corporation (US) and Yasuda Enterprise Development (Japan). Other shareholders include Cambridge Display Technology, Seiko Epson and the University of Cambridge. Venture finance has been provided by European Technology Ventures and European Venture Partners.

For more information www.plasticlogic.com

Please direct enquiries to:

Ciaran McAleer, Business Director, Fen Technology - ciaran.mcaleer@fentechnology.co.uk

+44 (0)1223 236262

Simon Jones, VP Product Development, Plastic Logic - simon.jones@plasticlogic.com

+44 (0)1223 706 000