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Thinfilm Builds Fabrication Facility to House New High-Volume, Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing

Former Qualcomm site will support ultra-scale production of Thinfilm’s NFC products and serve as new US HQ.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Thin Film Electronics ASA (Thinfilm) announced that it has leased a former Qualcomm-owned manufacturing facility in Silicon Valley and will relocate its current US headquarters and NFC Innovation Center in the first quarter of 2017.   The new location will house Thinfilm’s new high-volume roll-to-roll manufacturing line. Roll-based production will increase Thinfilm’s front-end production capacity to five billion NFC OpenSense and NFC SpeedTap tags per year – the equivalent of up to $680 millio...

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