Plastic Logic’s breakthrough plastic electronics display technology- the core of its forthcoming new eReader product- has earned the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Award for Technical Development Device. The award was given in recognition of the most significant development of a device or component in the printed electronics industry over the last 24 months.

Plastic Logic has made advances in plastic electronics that are enabling the worlds' thinnest, lightest, largest and most robust plastic displays. The display is the key component in Plastic Logic’s first commercial product: A groundbreaking electronic reader that provides a portable digital reading experience that is better than paper. The product will be released in the marketplace in Spring 2009.

Plastic Logic’s fundamental technology applies electronics on thin, flexible plastic substrates, utilizing a process that is simpler than conventional glass silicon processes, and yields benefits in terms of high-volume, quality, and low-cost products, with the added benefit of environmental savings. The technology has long-term implications across products in a range of industries, but during the past two years, Plastic Logic has focused its research and development on pioneering a groundbreaking large-format active matrix display.

“Plastic Logic essentially has taken a Cambridge UK university research project in plastic electronics with great promise and, over the course of the last two years, proven its process and scale, made the successful transfer from R&D proof of concept to commercial product manufacturing in our new Dresden, Germany factory. The factory is the world’s first commercial scale plastic electronics manufacturing facility and is a technical achievement in its own right,” said Plastic Logic CEO Richard Archuleta. “We are very honored by this esteemed industry recognition.”