UV/EB Curing related Japanese Information december’12

Toyo Ink SC Holdings to produce UV ink-jet inks for on -demand printing in France next year.
(The Chemical Daily, 12／3）
NanoMir develops new carbon nanohorn( CNH ) irradiated by electron beam from graphite.
(The Chemical Daily, 12／4）
Tokyo Ohka Kogyo and Samsung C&T establish a joint venture「TOK先端材料」to produce photoresists in Korea next year.
(The Nikkei Business Daily, 12／4）

UV/EB Curing related Information November’12

Origin Electric

DIC puts new UV hard coated films for FPD with 8H pensil hardness on the market.
(The Chemical Daily, 11／2）
Kyorin Holdings to adopt UV curing system for printing the trade name on the tablets.
(The Nikkei Business Daily, 11／19）

UV/EB Curing related Information October’12

Sumitomo Chemical reinforces the polarizing plate production lines in Korea applocabe for UV adehesive system.
(The Chemical Daily, 10／12）
Dia Aqua Solutions(DAS) puts new liquid coagulants for UV coatings at the paint spray booth on the market.
(The Chemical Daily, 10／16）

UV/EB Curing related Information September’12

Kyoeisha Chemical develops new UV coatings with high antifouling property.
(The Chemical Daily, 9／6）
Toagosei & JAXA codevelop new UV coatings for space vehicles.
(The Chemical Daily, 9／10）
UV/EB Technology aims for higher performance fields.( by Prof. of Osaka Prefecture Univ. Shirai, Masamitsu )
(The Chemical Daily, 9／19）
Maruzen Petrochemical reinforces the UV nanoimprint resin business.
(The Chemical Daily, 9／21）

UV/EB Curing related Information August’12

Denki Kagaku Kogyo to expand UV curable adhesives「TEMPLOC」to the market for coverglasses of smartphones.
(The Chemical Daily, 8／6）
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical triples the production capacity of dimethylol propane for UV inks, being 1800t/Y.
(The Chemical Daily, 8／9）
Kyocera reinforces the ink jet(IJ) business, supplying IJ heads for UV inks to the textile printing market.
(The Chemical Daily, 8／9）

UV/EB Curing related Information July’12

The Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry to be in commercial mass production of photo-cured transparent resin sheets for smartphones.
(The Nikkei Business Daily, 7／3）
Teikoku Printing Inks Mfg. puts UV curable pressure sensitive adhesive for FPD on the market.
(The Chemical Daily, 7／20）

UV/EB Curing related Information June’12

Japan Analytical Industry's the evolved gas capture-system for UV curable resin 「UVHM-4000」 receives a lot of inquiries.
(The Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 6／8）
Taisei Fine Chemical puts new UV curable urethane acrylic polymer with pencil hardness 2H for touch panels on the market.
(The Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 6／26）

UV/EB Curing related Information May’12

Sumitomo Chemical to promote streamlining of its photoresists distribution productivity.
(The Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 5／3）
NK WORKS reinforces the UV-LED irradiation device business.
(The Chemical Daily, 5／8）
Atomix puts new high weather resistant UV curable hard coatings on the market.
(The Chemical Daily, 5／21）
AIST develops new damage self-repair azobenzene type gel materials with light irradiation.
(The Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 5／24）
Taisei Fine Chemical develops new polyurethane-acrylic polymer hard coatings.
(The Chemical Daily, 5／30）

UV/EB Curing related Information April’12

AIST develops new light-sensitive materials (azobenzene derivatives) that liquefy upon irradiation of UV and again solidify upon irradiation of visible light.
(The Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 4／10）
ThreeBond develops UV curable anionic polymerization-type one-component epoxy adhesives.
(The Chemical Daily, 4／16）
Nissha Printing develops new UV curable gravure transferprinting system on metal surfaces.
(The Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 4／16）
GS Yuasa reinforces the UV irradiation device business, focusing on the plastic film coating field.
(The Chemical Daily, 4／17）
Sumitomo Electric Industries & INTEL to begin the trial marketing of long trnsmission range optical fiber cable「Thunderbolt」.
(The Chemical Daily, 4／20）
Shin Nakamura Chemical to build a new plant that produce monomers & oligomers for UV curable resins at Nantong Jiangsu in China, going on line in 2013, and its capacity of production being 2000t/Y.
(The Chemical Daily, 4／24）

UV/EB Curing related Information March’12

Technology Research Association for Advanced Display Materials(TRADIM)

UV/EB Curing related Information February’12

Aica puts new non-solvent UV curable clear coating with pencil hardness 4H (on acrylic plates) on the market.
(The Chemical Daily, 2／3）
'New Trends in the UV/EB curing technology' by Prof. Shirai of Osaka Prefecture Univ..
(The Chemical Daily, 2／3）
BYK Japan puts new scratch resistant UV curable coatings of silica dispersion type on the market.
(The Chemical Daily, 2／6）

UV/EB Curing related Information January’12

Toray develops new coating material "low-temperature curing positive-type photosensitive polyimide" for next generation semi-conductor protective film which could be cured at 170℃.
(The Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 1／9）
Prof.Ogoshi of Tokyo Univ. develops new photo-induced magnet material (cobalt/tungsten/pyrimidine) at extremly low temperature(－２３５℃）.
(The Nikkei Business Daily, 1／12）
Tanaka Holdings develops new UV curable conductive silver inks for electronic circuit connection.
(The Chemical Daily, 1／18）

UV/EB Curing related Information December’11

Fuji-Keizai forcasts that the demand of UV curable adhesives in 2015 for touch panels and so on increases to 13,8 billion yen as 3.3 times bigger than that in 2010.
(The Nikkei Business Daily, 12／14）
Taiyotoryo develops new display paint system , combining ultra-quick drying light storage coating and UV coating as protective paint.
(The Chemical Daily, 12／28）

UV/EB Curing related Information November’11

Thrmo Fisher Scientific develops new hybrid FTIR system which is able to measure viscoelastic properties of UV curable resin.
(The Chemical Daily, 11／2）
Tokushiki puts new flexible high performance UV curable polyurethane acrylates on the market.
(The Chemical Daily, 11／11）
Associate Prof. Arimitsu of Tokyo Univ. of Science develops new UV curable resin using 2-alkenyl benzoic acid derivatives.
(The Nikkei Business Daily, 11／30）

UV/EB Curing related Information October’11

National Institute for Materials Science develops UV cured stereo electric wiring technology for 3D-LSI.
(The Nikkei Business Daily, 10／3）
JSR & SEMATECH succeed in the equally-spaced patterning with 15nm linewidths by EUV exposure using chemically amplified resists, conrolling the acid diffusion.
(The Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 10／21）

UV/EB Curing related Information September’11

Techno Roll puts new resin rolls for UV printig machines on the market. Their swelling property are much improved as compared with conventionals
(The Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 9／9）
Kyoritsu Chemical to boost the shear of UV curable acrylate-type adhesives for LCD in Asia.
(The Chemical Daily, 9／13）
Osaka Organic Chemical Industry reinforces the Fries rearrangement-type photo-alignment materials business.
(The Chemical Daily, 9／14）
Ushio puts new light sources 「UV-LED module」 for UV curable ink-jet printers on the market.
(The Chemical Daily, 9／15）
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology develops new photosensitive organic materials, azobenzene derivatives which transform from solid to liquid by UV irradiation.
(The Chemical Daily, 9／29）

UV/EB Curing related Information August’11

A subsidiary of Nippon Kayaku doubles the production capacity of UV curable resin at Wuxi in China.
(The Chemical Daily, 8／12）
Stepper manufacturers:Nikon,ASML enjoy brisk sales of steppers for smartphone and tablet PC use.
(The Chemical Daily, 8／15）
Kyocera develops new parts「LED-UV curing parts」for printing machines, which cure UV inks with UV irradiation.
(The Nikkei Business Daily, 8／25）
Harima Chemicals develops UV curable micro-particles dispersion of acrylics fot flat-panel display coatings.
(The Chemical Daily, 8／31）

UV/EB Curing related Information July’11

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries develops new room temperature wefer bonding machine for 3D integrated LSI (8inches), adopting atomic beam.
(The Chemical Daily, 7／12）
IMEC( Belgium ) develops new EUV exposure machine which has 20 times of current processing speed. Its light sources are supplied by USHIO.
(The Chemical Daily, 7／13）

UV/EB Curing related Information June’11

Asahi Rubber develops new white photoresists for near ultraviolet ray.
(The Chemical Daily, 6／7）
Prof. Ogoshi'group of Tokyo Univ. develop new magnet-optical materials which translate from paramagnetic state to ferromagnetic state on light irradiation treatment.
(The Nikkei Business Daily, 6／8）
Kaneka reinforces the photocurable telechelic polyacrylares(KANEKA XMAP) business.
(The Chemical Daily, 6／13）
Ushio reinforces the EUV light source for the next generation semiconductor process business.
(The Chemical Daily, 6／15）
DIC develops new UV curable organic-inorganic hybrid resins(polysiloxane-acrylics).
(The Chemical Daily, 6／24）
Fujifilm reinforces the semiconductor materials business. Fujifilm maintains its market shear of 30% in the immersion ArF photoresist market.
(The Chemical Daily, 6／28）

UV/EB Curing related Information May’11

Hitachi Chemical doubles the production capacity of photopolymer films for PC boards in China(100milion square meters/Y).
(The Chemical Daily, 5／6）
TOTO grants the photocatalyst technology for air cleaning to Alcoa(USA).
(The Nikkei Business Daily, 3／4）
Ipposha Oil Industries puts new high polymer type UV absorber「LS-907」for UV curable hard coatings on the market.
(The Chemical Daily, 5／13）
Topics at RadTech Asia 2011(round-table discussion)
(The Chemical Daily, 5／25）

UV/EB Curing related Information April’11

Mitsubishi Rayon puts new UV processed moth-eye type absent reflex films on the market.
(The Chemical Daily, 4／13）
NIDEK develops new UV curable organic-inorganic hybrid hard coatings applicable to cycloolefin polymer substrate film.
(The Chemical Daily, 4／20）
Ishihara Chemicaldevelops photocurable copper inks for flexible circuit boards with ink-jet printing process.
(The Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 4／26）
AUTEX develops new photocurable( visible light or UV ) epoxy-type materials, which contain latent photoinitiators.
(The Chemical Daily, 4／28）
Heraeus puts high output UV -LED lamp 「Noblecure」 (8W/cm2) on the market.
(The Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 4／28）

UV/EB Curing related Information March’11

EL-SEED develops EB processed moth-eye structures on LED boards, dramatically enhancing the light output of LEDs.
(The Chemical Daily, 3／2）
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST) develops new UV processed film for the dimming control glass.
(The Nikkei Business Daily, 3／4）
Hewlett-Packard Japan puts UV ink-equipped hybrid UV printers,「Scitex FB500｣ and 「Scitex FB７00｣ on the market.
(The Chemical Daily, 3／10）

UV/EB Curing related Information February’11

Nagaoka University of Technology , Mitsubishi Rayon , Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology succeed in increasing significantly the power conversion efficiency of solar cells using UV processing moth eye structured antireflection films.
(The Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 2／4）
Exposure machine makwers, ASML , Nikon , Canon enjoy brisk sales, photoresists are also in great demand.
(The Chemical Daily, 2／24）
Maruzen Petrochemical to boost the share of photoresist polymer for KrF process.
(The Chemical Daily, 2／25）

UV/EB Curing related Information January’11

TAMURA develops new black solder resist which is able to make insulating film with 50～７５μｍ line widths.
(The Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 1／13）
Technovision puts new UV-LED curing equipment( UVC-200A ) for wafer process on the market.
(The Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 1／18）