Leading Supplier Prime View International to lead e-paper webinar for Pira International

Jan. 27, 2010 - PRLog -- Portland, Maine, US / Leatherhead, England, January 27, 2010 -- Pira e-Learning has teamed up with +Plastic Electronics to present E-readers and E-paper: Technology and Applications, on February 18, 2010 at 11:00 am EST. The webinar will focus on the evolution of e-paper for the e-reader market, providing an overview of e-readers to date, technology advances in three key areas: flexibility, color and video and will also discuss future applications for e-paper displays. Ian French, a principal scientist at Prime View International (PVI) is the featured speaker.

Taiwan-based PVI (http://www.pvi.com.tw/) is the leading supplier of e-paper displays to the burgeoning e-reader market and recently acquired E Ink, the sole supplier of e-paper frontplanes for e-reader devices. PVI's customers include Amazon, Sony, Hanvon and Bookeen. Before joining PVI in 2008, French worked at Philips and developed a flexible e-paper technology that exploits existing active matrix TFT-LCD fabrication processes used in the mass manufacture of electronic information displays.

For more information on E-readers and E-paper: Technology and Applications, visit
http://www.plusplasticelectronics.com, or follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/piraelearning.

Established in 1930, Pira International – the worldwide authority on the packaging, paper and print industry supply chains. Pira provides strategic and technical consulting, testing, intelligence and events to help clients gain market insights, identify opportunities, evaluate product performance and manage compliance.

+Plastic Electronics magazine is published six times a year, by Pira International, to analyze the strategies of companies launching and commercializing products based on these technologies. Online at http://www.plusplasticelectronics.com  

Members of the press interested in attending, to find out if you qualify for a complimentary press pass, please contact Chandra Guyot at Chandra.guyot@pira-international.com or + 1 207-781-9602.

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Established in 1930, Pira International – the worldwide authority on the packaging, paper and print industry supply chains.