Tracxon wants nothing less than to reinvent how printed electronics and flexible circuit boards are manufactured – with a strong focus on sustainability and scalable production.
In a video interview with Bits&Chips, Tracxon’s ambitious CEO Ashok Sridhar explains how his company is evolving from a manufacturing services provider into a supplier of complete production systems. Central to that strategy is the development of what it claims is the world’s first roll-to-roll “via filling” machine for printed electronics. “There came the idea of the world’s first via printing machine,” says Sridhar. “By 2028, we’ll start to sell these to the market.”
The new systems are designed to create multilayer printed electronic circuits at high speed on flexible foils. According to Sridhar, the challenge is enormous: accurately drilling and filling thousands of microscopic vias per minute in a moving roll-to-roll process. “Speed combined with accuracy is the biggest challenge,” he points out.
The deep-tech startup that emerged from the TNO/Holst Centre ecosystem believes the technology could eventually address up to 65 percent of the global PCB market. Tracxon is particularly looking at wearables, IoT and medical sensing applications where lightweight and flexible electronics are becoming essential.
This interview can be watched on Youtube.
