Henkel and Teca-Print Collaborate to Advance Pad Printing in Printed Electronics

Henkel and Teca-Print have announced a partnership focused on advancing pad printing in printed electronics. This collaboration aims to promote pad printing solutions in growing technology sectors like antennas, digital healthcare, 3D electronics, and smart mobility, helping customers accelerate project timelines. Leveraging their combined expertise, Henkel and Teca-Print will provide seamless product recommendations from R&D through to final production, along with joint trial opportunities and feasibility studies.

Henkel, a leading supplier of materials and services for printed electronics, offers a comprehensive Loctite portfolio of functional inks, including conductive, resistive, and dielectric inks. With four decades of expertise in material formulation, Henkel empowers its partners to create customized printed electronics applications that meet the specific needs of industrial clients, such as membrane switches, flexible circuits, force sensors, heating elements, and medical biosensors for healthcare, automotive, and consumer electronics sectors. To further support 3D parts functionalization, Henkel has recently introduced a new range of functional inks optimized for pad printing technology.

With over 50 years of experience, Teca-Print has been a pioneer in advancing pad printing technology. The company designs its equipment and systems to meet the precise needs of its customers, delivering exceptional quality and precision. Teca-Print’s offerings include state-of-the-art software to optimize processes, a wide range of automated solutions, specialized and standard pad printing machines, as well as an extensive selection of peripheral equipment and consumables like printing pads, inks, and cliché plates.

“At Henkel, we strongly believe in the value of close collaborations and a broad and diverse ecosystem of partners to further unlock the enormous potential of printed electronics across industries,” explained Anna Ryzhova, Business Development Manager for Printed Electronics at Henkel. “Teca-Print is a proven and well-renowned leader in pad printing technologies since decades. Together, we want to combine our different expertise to help customers to overcome challenges and to accelerate their projects for new market opportunities in fields such as smart living, healthcare, mobility, electronics and more.”

“We are thrilled to partner with a leading material specialist such as Henkel,” said Dominik Aeschbach, Expert for Printed Electronics at Teca-Print. “Their extensive ink formulation expertise for pad printing applications combined with our machine and matching consumables know-how will enable us to transfer our pad printing capabilities into the field of printed electronics. By commonly providing seamless development and production support as well as a broad variety of trial and study offerings we are convinced to achieve optimum printing results that will help bringing this technology to a new level.”

Henkel and Teca-Print will showcase their partnership and combined expertise at TechBlick Berlin on October 23-24. They will present their advanced material portfolios at booths D02 and D03. Additionally, the companies will hold a speaking session titled “Advancing Pad Printable Solutions with Henkel Materials” on October 23 at 12:40 pm in Room 3, Track C.

Source: HENKEL