Report projects printed electronics market

Markets for displays, signage, lighting, RFID tags, sensors, solar panels, batteries and other products manufactured using printing technology will reach $30.1 billion by 2015, according to a report from NanoMarkets.

The report, Printable Electronics Market Outlook: An Applications-Based Assessment, notes the progress that the printed electronics industry has made in the last few years and goes on to project which printed electronics applications will generate the most revenues in the next seven years.

Printed electronics products are now in full-scale production, according to the report. E-paper displays and RFID antennas are being routinely printed and such products are expected to generate $5.6 and $12.6 billion in revenues respectively by 2015.

NanoMarkets analysts also expect that as improved manufacturing equipment and materials become available, further product opportunities will emerge.

According to the report, projected sales for printed solar panels will reach $2.5 billion by 2015. Printed electronics will also make a contribution to energy savings through printed OLED lighting, an emerging cost-effective approach to solid-state illumination. This type of lighting is expected to reach $1.7 billion in sales by 2015.

The report also found that printing is no longer viewed as a wholesale fabrication technology. Instead, it is increasingly seen as an essential tool for manufacturing the new generation of flexible and large area electronics products.

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