Imprint Energy gains new investments to advance ultrathin flexible batteries
September 18 2018 - 9:00AM
Imprint Energy announced the successful completion of a $5 million
investment round. Investors included Imprint’s technology partner
Semtech (Nasdaq: SMTC), the u.life fund, which is managed by Global
Value Investment Portfolio Management (“GVIP”), and previous
investors including Phoenix Venture Partners (PVP).
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Imprint has continued its progress toward commercialization.
Multiple manufacturing partners have successfully printed Imprint
batteries using their existing standard printing equipment, and
Imprint batteries are moving into field trials of IoT products. One
of Imprint’s batteries has been especially designed to power IoT
devices that communicate using Semtech’s LoRa® devices and wireless
radio frequency technology (LoRa Technology) for low-power wireless
networks, and Semtech and its partners are early customers of
Imprint batteries.
Imprint’s batteries are well-suited to powering large numbers of
IoT devices, sensors and labels now coming to market. Imprint has
continued to advance both its ZincPoly™ battery chemistry and its
process technology for high-volume, low-cost production. The zinc
polymer-based chemistry enables environmentally-safer batteries
that are rechargeable and/or disposable; offer higher energy
density in thin formats; show low resistance to support the power
surges needed to wirelessly communicate over long distances; and
are simpler to make. Imprint’s manufacturing process technology has
been demonstrated on low-, medium- and high-volume printers,
including common surface-mount technology (SMT) lines and, as
trials have demonstrated, roll-to-roll screen printers. This allows
Imprint partners, like electronic manufacturing services (EMS)
firms and contract manufacturers, to make batteries via a “mass
print” approach rather than assembling them one at a time, and to
directly integrate Imprint batteries with sensors, chips and
antennas, further reducing total device costs.
About Imprint Energy
Imprint Energy is a widely-recognized leader in ultrathin,
flexible, printed batteries for always-connected Internet of Things
products, including smart labels, health and wellness sensors, and
flexible displays. Imprint’s proprietary ZincPoly™ chemistry has
higher energy density, is safer, and can power communications
better than thin lithium batteries. Imprint batteries are moving
into field trials and multiple partners have printed batteries
using their own equipment. Imprint has received extensive
recognition, including the MIT Technology Review Innovators under
35 and 50 Smartest Companies. To learn more, see
www.imprintenergy.com.
For more information
For Imprint Energy: Steve Weiss,
sweiss@imprintenergy.com.
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