Loading...PowerFilm Awarded $220,000 for Building Integrated
08 July 2011, PowerFilm, Inc. (AIM: PFLM), (“PowerFilm” or the “Company”), the developer and manufacturer of thin flexible solar panels and roll to roll flexible electronics, today announces it has been awarded a $220,000 grant from the Iowa Power Fund for commercializing its building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) products.
The award will help support various aspects of commercializing PowerFilm’s new building integrated products: develop manufacturing automation and solar panel test equipment for the new product line, demonstration projects for prospective customers, a loaner kit for commercial, community, and civic groups to use for educational purposes, and product and marketing information materials to explain the products and systems in detail online. Read more
Posted on | julio 11, 2011 | http://www.invesbolsa.com/news/powerfilm-awarded-220000-for-building-integrated.html#comments
Powerfilm: Thin, but powerful
When U.S. troops in Afghanistan need to re-charge their laptops and mobile devices, they use a product manufactured by Ames-based PowerFilm, makers of “thin flexible solar panels and thin film electronics.”
With President Barack Obama’s visit to Iowa earlier this week to encourage the growth of advanced manufacturing in this state and the rest of the U.S., a June 27 open house at PowerFilm could not have come at a more opportune time.
The company is 23 years old, founded by former 3M research physicists Frank Jeffrey and Derrick Grimmer. It now employs 87 people in two buildings in an industrial area on the western outskirts of Ames.
Mike Coon, company vice president for business development and external relations, conducted tours for visitors including local business people and Iowa Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds.
The first thing Coon showed visitors was a “flexible electronic display” developed for PowerFilm and delivered to the company in late June.
Coon said the product that could be “used to make unbreakable laptop computer screens. We are in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard and (getting assistance) from the U.S. Army” with the project.
Posted on | julio 4, 2011 | http://www.invesbolsa.com/news/powerfilm-thin-but-powerful.html#comments
