Fabien Resweber | Alqio: How can you integrate flexible piezoelectric sensors or actuators into your product without handling delicate, thin films?

Beyond just supplying functional films, can you print a complete, multi-layer piezoelectric sensor directly onto a substrate?

Alqio demonstrates their capability to move beyond single-layer coating to manufacture fully assembled piezoelectric sensors using additive manufacturing techniques. In contrast to simply providing an active film, this service involves building the entire sensor stack layer by layer directly onto the final substrate. This integrated approach leverages the PayFlex technology from their research partners.

The manufacturing is performed using screen printing, where different functional inks (e.g., electrodes, piezoelectric layer, encapsulation) are sequentially deposited to create the complete device. This method produces a ready-to-use sensor component that only requires connection to the final readout electronics, streamlining the customer's assembly process.

Crucially, this technology is not limited to lab-scale or sheet-based production. Alqio has implemented this as a roll-to-roll screen printing process, enabling the high-volume, scalable manufacturing required for commercial products. Key applications include vibration sensors for industrial predictive maintenance and advanced sensors for sports performance monitoring.

In this short video, you can learn:
* The process of building a complete sensor stack using multi-layer screen printing.
* How roll-to-roll screen printing enables scalable production of these sensors.
* High-value applications for printed sensors, including predictive maintenance and sports technology.

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This clip explains how Alqio manufactures complete, multi-layer piezoelectric sensors using a scalable roll-to-roll screen printing process. This additive approach creates ready-to-use devices for applications like industrial predictive maintenance, where sensors can "listen" to equipment to predict failures.
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Is your functional ink failing to perform on an industrial scale? The problem might not be the ink itself, but its compatibility with the printing process.

While customers primarily approach Alqio for their industrial coating and printing services, a crucial underlying capability is their in-house ink formulation expertise. Alqio develops and fine-tunes its own inks to ensure perfect synergy between the material properties and the high-throughput manufacturing process. This vertical integration is a key factor in achieving high-precision, reliable results at scale.

This expertise allows them to precisely control critical ink parameters like viscosity and long-term stability, which are essential for high-yield production. They leverage this know-how, originally developed for demanding applications like solar panel manufacturing, to create custom formulations such as specialized glues for additive manufacturing or to optimize a customer's existing ink for their equipment.

Alqio offers this formulation knowledge as a distinct service, acting as a fine-tuning and scale-up partner. This is particularly valuable for startups and R&D teams that have developed a novel material but lack the capability to optimize it for industrial printing processes. This service effectively bridges the critical gap between lab-scale chemistry and full-scale commercial production.

In this short video, you can learn:
* Why controlling ink formulation is critical for successful industrial-scale printing.
* How Alqio fine-tunes ink properties like viscosity and stability to match their processes.
* How they act as a formulation and scale-up partner for startups and other companies.

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Alqio reveals that a key to their high-precision printing is their in-house ink formulation capability, which they also offer as a service. By fine-tuning ink properties like viscosity and stability, they ensure optimal performance on their industrial equipment and help partners scale up their own materials.
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