New NanoMarkets Report Identifies the Key Opportunities and Strategies for Printed Batteries

29-Apr-2009 - USA

NanoMarkets announced the release of "Printed Battery Markets: 2009 and Beyond ". The report contains the latest analysis and market projections from NanoMarkets' ongoing research of the "thin" batteries market.

NanoMarkets' new report offers some mixed perspectives on the market.

We have now reached a stage where printed batteries are now a viable technology; thanks to advances in materials and manufacturing there are products on the market that utilize them. However, the conventional wisdom a few years back was that RFID was going to be the killer application for printed battery technology. Today that has not come to pass because of printed RFID's slower-than-anticipated market acceptance. While printed RFID will still be an important application for printed batteries the real story today is powered smart cards which are an increasingly important technology for the credit card industry and consumers. Smart cards is an area where printing is already used as the manufacturing process. Being able to integrate the power source in the production of smart cards is extremely attractive for manufacturers.

Meanwhile, the story of printed batteries has shifted from being about their own opportunity to what it is that printed battery technology can enable. By 2015, NanoMarkets sales of products that utilize printed batteries will total $1.5 billion in revenues, with the value of the batteries themselves amounting to more than $200 million. While this should be seen as encouraging, NanoMarkets believes that more printed battery firms will have to follow the lead of Power Paper and look to develop applications for their batteries, rather than just produce the batteries themselves since remaining as a battery supplier will likely spell the demise of many firms. This strategy will offer potentially bigger markets for printed batteries manufacturers to tap into, but it also means a potentially significant shift in the focus of the business models and the need for additional finance.

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