Is Europe Losing the Race?

For every European giant backing printed and potentially printed electronics as a whole, such as BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, supplying the materials, there is a string of giants such as Sony, Matsushita, Canon, Sumitomo and Toshiba with major programs in Japan, usually right through to complete devices. Many will be their own customer. That is an extremely significant point, given that giant printing and packaging companies in East Asia such as Dai Nippon Printing and Toppan Printing are also heavily into printed electronics, putting their European equivalents to shame.