TNO spinoff Tracxon has raised 4.75 million euros to develop production equipment for multilayer printed circuit boards. The Eindhoven-based company is creating environmentally friendly alternatives to today’s highly polluting PCB industry and aims to sell machines for that purpose.
Tracxon can build on a strong foundation. The company points to the 500 person-years its parent organization TNO has already invested in printed electronics expertise. Beyond process and application know-how, this also includes unique design rules, CEO Ashok Sridhar emphasizes. “We’re taking it from lab to fab.”
The starting point of the TNO spinoff is a fully additive production process. Traditional PCB manufacturing relies on etching away materials. Tracxon builds the printed structures layer by layer. Sridhar: “Everything we do is additive.”
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