Imec, a world-leading research and innovation hub in advanced semiconductor technologies, announced that IC-Link by imec, imec’s design and manufacturing service provider for ASIC and silicon photonics, has joined TSMC Open Innovation Platform® (OIP) 3DFabric® Alliance. As part of the TSMC OIP ecosy…

Lasers for space applications, power transistors for energy-efficient electronics, or components for quantum systems – all these developments originate in materials technology. This is where ultrathin semiconductor layer stacks with precisely defined properties are created. Using metal-organic vapor…

– Pharmaceutical service provider celebrates groundbreaking with project partners and representatives from land and region
– Production building with 50,000 m² area marks the start of construction work
– New location is part of global growth and investment initiatives

Vetter, one of the world's leading…

The Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP has received regulatory approval to conduct activities at biosafety level 2. The laboratory complex thus opens up new research and testing opportunities for industry and project partners. This approval marks an important milestone…

Prototal Group is now also manufacturing series components made of plastic in the DACH region. Northern Europe's largest provider for industrial 3D printing and injection molding has opened a location at the headquarters of its specialized subsidiary 1zu1scale in Dornbirn. With its own sales structu…

The development of drugs is lengthy, complex and expensive. Approaches from organ-on-a-chip research promise to shorten the time to approval of new active ingredients. Together with experts from TU Darmstadt, Festo has developed an exhibit that demonstrates the automated production of such mini-orga…

The Styrian high-tech company is strengthening its plant in Fehring with a comprehensive investment program. More than EUR 30 million will be invested in new technologies, sustainability and additional jobs. 50 new jobs and an apprentice workshop for skilled worker training will be created.

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With the Micro System Analyzers (MSA-600, MSA-650 IRIS, MSA-100-3D), Polytec has been addressing contactless characterization of MEMS dynamics and topography for years – from individual dies to wafer-level testing on probe stations. The current expansion combines this optical measurement technology…

– Revenue reached a new high of CHF 7.5 billion in 2025 (2024: CHF 7.2 billion), driven by more companies with market-ready products and sustained growing demand for specialized CDMO services.
– Capital inflows increased by 2.1% to CHF 2.6 billion. At the same time, the focus shifted significantly to…

With the current new edition of the analysis of the German cleanroom market, the dynamic submarket of cleanroom cleaning is once again coming into focus. The market is divided into three core segments: cleaning by specialized building service providers, usually active nationwide in Germany; smaller…