Nanotechnology : Switzerland

Schoeller Textil AG

Benj — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:58:39 +0000

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Web url

http://www.nano-sphere.ch/

Contact Email

info@schoeller-textiles.com

Short description

Street address

Bahnhofstrasse 17

Zip or postal code

CH- 9475

Telephone

+41 81 786 08 00

Fax

+41 81 786 08 10

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Ceo, president

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NanoSphere is ideally suited to the area of clothing. Further applications, for example in home textiles or in the medical sector, are undoubtedly also conceivable.

Water, stains and other substances such as ketchup, honey, oil, red wine or blood simply run off the nano-surface.

New York Office:

Tiroler Loden America
Jennifer Ryan
101 West, 55th Street
Suite 8 K
USA - New York, NY 10019
Phone +1 212 586 3449
Fax +1 212 586 3525

(The company has another domain name: www.schoeller-textiles.com)

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STMicroelectronics

Benj — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:20:19 +0000

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Web url

http://www.st.com/

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Street address

STMicroelectronics Worldwide Headquarters, 39, Chemin du Champ des Filles C. P. 21

Zip or postal code

CH 1228

Telephone

+41 22 929 29 29

Fax

+41 22 929 29 00

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An unrivaled combination of silicon and system expertise, manufacturing strength, Intellectual Property (IP) portfolio and strategic partners positions the Company at the forefront of System-on-Chip (SoC) technology and its products play a key role in enabling today's convergence trends.

ST is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies. In 2003, ST's net revenues were US$7.2 billion and net earnings were US$253 million. According to the most recent data from independent sources, ST is also the world's leading supplier of analog ICs, MPEG-2 decoder ICs, and ASICs/ASSPs overall. Additionally, in the memory market, ST is ranked fourth in NOR Flash ICs. In application segments: ST is number one for ICs in set-top boxes; at number two in smart cards, in hard disk drives, and also in xDSL chips; and at number three in wireless semiconductors and also in automotive.

The Company's products are manufactured and designed using a broad range of fabrication processes and proprietary design methods. To complement this depth and diversity of process and design technology, the Company also possesses a broad intellectual property portfolio that it has used to enter into cross-licensing agreements with many other leading semiconductor manufacturers.

ST has developed a worldwide network of strategic alliances, including product development with key customers, technology development with customers and other semiconductor manufacturers, and equipment and CAD development alliances with major suppliers. By augmenting its rich portfolio of proprietary technologies and core competencies with complementary expertise from a variety of carefully chosen strategic partners, ST has developed an unsurpassed capability to offer leading-edge solutions to customers in all segments of the electronics industry.

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ABB Ltd.

Benj — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:00:08 +0000

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Web url

http://www.abb.com/

Contact Email

Short description

Street address

Affolternstrasse 54, P.O. Box 8131

Zip or postal code

CH-8050

Telephone

+41 (0)43 317 7111

Fax

+41 (0)43 317 4420

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Ceo, president

Number of employees

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ABB is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries.

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CSM Instruments SA

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:42:10 +0000

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Web url

http://www.csm-instruments.com

Contact Email

info@csm-instruments.com

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Street address

Rue de la Gare 1

Zip or postal code

2034

Telephone

+41 32 557 5600

Fax

+41 32 557 5610

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Ceo, president

Jacques Francoise

Number of employees

Long description

CSM Instruments has been established for over 25 years as the world leader for Advanced Mechanical Surface Testing and we manufacture the following instruments:

//// Scratch Testers (Nano, Micro or Macro) for Adhesion and Scratch resistance
With more than 1000 Instruments worldwide, our devices are necessary tools for industries for whom surface properties are essential

//// Nano or Micro Indentation Testers for Hardness and Elastic Modulus
Using depth-sensing indentation, the depth is continuously monitored simultaneously with the applied load.
Coating mechanical properties can be easily characterised, independently to those of the substrate.

//// Pin-on-Disk Tribometers for the Friction coefficient and Wear
Available with many options, Tribometers can accurately simulate real in-service conditions in controlled humidity or temperature (from 20°C - 1000°C).

//// The Calotest is used to measure the Coating Thickness
Highly reproducible method for coatings in the thickness range 200nm - 50um.
With the Calotest, you can check coating thickness in a very short time (1-2 minutes) without any special sample preparation.

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Acrongenomics Inc.

Benj — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:43:35 +0000

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Web url

http://www.acrongen.com/

Contact Email

info@acrongen.com

Short description

Street address

14 Rue Kleberg

Zip or postal code

CH-1201

Telephone

+41 22 716 5300

Fax

+41 22 716 5319

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Ceo, president

Platon Tzouvalis MSc

Number of employees

Long description

As the global population escalates every year, medical providers are constantly seeking technologically advanced products and processes from diagnostics to treatment to monitoring patient diseases. We anticipate the technological changes we will inevitably encounter and strive to play an influential role in advancing medical technologies that will undoubtedly benefit the medical community around the world.

Acrongenomics is confident of its ability to satisfy its shareholders and employees by constantly evaluating its business strategy by collaborating with well-established research institutions and investing in innovative scientific projects, converting them into commercial opportunities.

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The Innovation Society : Nano Safety, Risk & Regulation

Benj — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:37:10 +0000

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Web url

http://www.innovationsgesellschaft.ch/nano_regulation.htm

Contact Email

Short description

Street address

Lerchenfeldstr. 5

Zip or postal code

9014

Telephone

+41 (0) 71 274 74 17

Fax

+41 (0) 71 274 74 18

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Our mission is to support the innovation We do this by:

* Establishing an International Stakeholder-Network on regulatory issues
* Monitoring and evaluation of international safety-, risk- and regulation-data
* Promoting Public communication and dissemination of relevant data.
* Collaborative policy activities that develop international standards for engineered nanostructure (actionplans, safety guidelines, best practices)
* Organising Stakeholder Conferences & Events where international regulators and nano-professionals meet.

All our activities support our mission of assessing, communicating and reducing the environmental and health risks associated with nanotechnology in order to promote a safe and successful use of nanotechnology in the future.

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Applied mems

Benj — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:18:31 +0000

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Web url

http://www.appliedmems.cc/htmlmems/index.htm

Contact Email

sales@colibrys.com

Short description

Street address

Colibrys (Switzerland) Ltd, MaladiГЁre 83

Zip or postal code

CH-2007

Telephone

+41 32 720-5811

Fax

+41 32 720-5784

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Number of employees

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Applied MEMS originated as the MEMS R&D organization for Input/Output, with the mandate to develop a manufacturable, robust, micro-g accelerometer that would enable the world's first digital multi-component seismic sensor for the oil and gas exploration industry. The goal was achieved and it was commercialized as the VectorSeis seismic sensor, which represents a paradigm shift for the oil and gas exploration industry. VectorSeis offers performance and field deployment advantages over conventional seismic geophones. VectorSeis has energized new thinking on how to further apply MEMS technology to the various aspects of the oil and gas field life cycle, from exploration through appraisal drilling and production from the well.

The seismic accelerometer program helped Applied MEMS establish a state-of-the art MEMS organization, intellectual property portfolio, and facility that can be applied to meet the MEMS product and service needs of our customers. Input/Output and Applied MEMS have a synergistic relationship - Input/Output can be viewed as a built-in investor and customer for Applied MEMS, and Applied MEMS is effectively a non-captive foundry for MEMS end users.

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Turbobeads GmbH

Benj — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:51:01 +0000

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Web url

http://www.turbobeads.com/

Contact Email

info@turbobeads.com

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Street address

P.O. Box

Zip or postal code

CH-8093

Telephone

+41 44 633 63 34

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Ceo, president

Robert Grass, Wendelin Stark

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The new technology enables the covalent bonding of functional groups to the surface of magnetic particles. The particles, with diameters below 50 nm, achieve magnetic moments 5x exceeding the moment of ironoxide beads and 10x exceeding the moment of dynabeads.

It is our goal to create innovative solutions to magnetic separation on any application scale – from microreactor to pilot scale and industrial fabrication.

Grass et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 46, 4909 (2007).

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Buhler Group

Benj — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:26:01 +0000

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Web url

http://www.buhlergroup.com/

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Short description

Street address

Buhler AG

Zip or postal code

CH-9240

Telephone

+41 71 955 11 11

Fax

+41 71 955 33 79

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Number of employees

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Surface modification is the key when engineering meets chemical nanotechnology. The size of nanoparticles matters, but it is their surface that rules…

Are you looking for a way to open new markets? Do you want to increase your differentiation against your competitors? Have you made trials with off-the-shelf nanoproducts and were not satisfied with the result? Are you in pursuit of a low risk approach to nanotechnology?
Chemical nanotechnology done right can offer you the opportunity for product innovations that you have been waiting for. Buhler is committed to provide turnkey solutions for you in a partnership approach for your success.

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Concentris GmbH

Benj — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:18:46 +0000

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Web url

http://www.concentris.com/

Contact Email

info@concentris.ch

Short description

Street address

Davidsbodenstrasse 63

Zip or postal code

CH-4012

Telephone

+41 61 322 06 55

Fax

+41 61 322 06 56

Foundation date

Ceo, president

Dr. Urs Hubler

Number of employees

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Concentris develops and commercializes leading edge analytical instruments furthering research and application development of cantilever sensor technology. Founded in 2000 and based in Basel, Switzerland, Concentris assembles an outstanding team of specialists in the field of nanoscience and cantilever technology. The company's scientific staff has gathered its knowledge working at Prof. Dr. H.-J. Güntherodt's National Competence Center for Nanoscale Science (NCCR) in Basel and at the IBM Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon/Zurich. PRODUCTS AND SERVICES Cantisens Research Cantilever Sensor Platform Cantisens Research is an innovative cantilever sensor platform designed to support leading edge scientific research and industrial application development. Using customized chemical sensing layers, Cantisens Research can be employed for a wide range of scientific and industrial applications. The stand-alone system offers parallel, label-free detection of up to eight different substances or biomolecular interactions. It combines a multi-purpose cantilever sensor platform with powerful measurement electronics and easy-to-use control and evaluation software. Cantisens Cantilever Arrays High quality nanomechanical silicon cantilever arrays for static and dynamic mode measurements are available in different geometries. Static mode cantilever arrays are ideally suited for all applications, where extremely small forces have to be detected, such as in chemical and biochemical sensing or nano-calorimetry. Dynamic mode cantilever arrays are designed for the detection of small mass changes on the cantilever surface through measurung the changes in resonance frequency. Precision manufacturing assures extremely high product accuracy and excellent mechanical properties. Variations of less than 1% between cantilevers on a single array are typical - a key for reliable and reproducible experiments, which is appreciated by leading research groups world-wide. Cantisens Functionalisation Unit With the Cantisens FU-401, Concentris offers a fast and easy way to functionalise cantilever arrays with proven capillary technique. Using a precision micromanipulator, the cantilevers are inserted into glass capillaries, which are filled with the functionalisation liquid. Up to four cantilevers within an array can be functionalised simultaneously. Cantilever Sensor Technology Nanomechanical cantilevers are very small and extremely sensitive force and mass detectors. By coating (functionalising) their surface with a material that selectively adsorbs or binds a given target substance cantilevers can be converted into highly sensitive and selective chemical sensors or biosensors. When a target substance comes into contact with a functionalised cantilever surface, the resulting chemical reaction is converted into a mechanical response - the cantilever bends and changes its resonance frequency. No fluorescent or radioactive labelling is necessary for realtime detection or quantification of the target substance.

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Actelion Ltd & Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd

Benj — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:15:26 +0000

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Web url

http://www.actelion.com/

Contact Email

info@actelion.com

Short description

Street address

Gewerbestrasse 16

Zip or postal code

4123

Telephone

+41 61 565 65 65

Fax

+41 61 565 65 00

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Ceo, president

Number of employees

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Actelion aims to discover or in-license and develop a steady stream of new products as revenue sources based on first-in-class small molecule compounds. In doing so, Actelion is focusing on innovative treatments for highunmet medical needs, where Actelions new drugs can bring therapeutic advantage to patients and economic benefit for the community at large. Actelion also aims to maximize the value of its products, for example, by seeking additional indications for existing drugs.

Actelion has established an infrastructure to develop, register and market its products in key markets worldwide. By doing so, Actelion is generating sustained profitability and ensuring a growth above industry average. When a product's potential indications could serve a patient population so large that Actelion could not adequately serve it with its own marketing force, the company may seek strategic partnerships with other pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical companies.

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Colibrys SA

Benj — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:02:28 +0000

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Web url

http://www.colibrys.com/

Contact Email

sales@colibrys.com

Short description

Street address

Maladière 83 PO Box 20

Zip or postal code

CH 2007

Telephone

+41 32 720 58 11

Fax

+41 32 720 57 05

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Colibrys seeks to exploit applications that demand innovative, high performance, total solutions in medium to high volume quantities.

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Debiotech S.A.

Benj — Tue, 01 May 2007 13:31:41 +0000

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Web url

http://www.debiotech.com/

Contact Email

Short description

Street address

Le Portique, Av. de Sévelin 28

Zip or postal code

1004

Telephone

+41 21 623 60 00

Fax

+41 21 623 60 01

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Ceo, president

Number of employees

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Debiotech is your partner for the development of highly innovative medical devices for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes :
Disposable programmable micropumps, miniaturized infusion pumps, contrast media injectors, drug reconstitution devices, cycler for peritoneal dialysis, flow regulators, nano delivery systems...

Debiotech is also a R&D organisation which integrates today the best industrial skills and numerous collaborations with industrial groups and R&D centers for the quickest conversion of technical innovations into products.

Debiotech’s Insulin Nanopump™ is made of two parts: a permanent part that contains the electronics and a disposable part with the reservoir and the pumping mechanism. It has a total volume of 65mm x 38mm x 11mm (27ml) with an insulin reservoir capacity of 3ml and the permanent part attached. With such a small size, it can be hidden under the clothes and makes the disease almost invisible. Size is often perceived as a major issue for patients: pumps are heavy and cumbersome. The Insulin Nanopump™ is up to five times smaller than today’s pumps and therefore represents a clear progress for the patients’ Quality of Life.

The MEMS technology used in the Insulin Nanopump™ allows a very tight control of the pumping mechanism. Each pump actuation injects only 200 nanoliters of drug, and reproducibility is better than 2%, bringing it very close to physiological delivery of insulin. This precise control may also allow the use of more concentrated insulin, once available on the market. It should also extend the use of pumps for children who have low needs of insulin, and where injection must be especially well controlled. On the longer run, it may be combined with a continuous glucose monitoring system and open the way to the artificial pancreas.

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AWM Mold Tech Ltd.

Benj — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:12:48 +0000

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Web url

http://www.awm.ch/

Contact Email

Short description

Street address

Gotthardstrasse 3

Zip or postal code

CH-5630

Telephone

++41 56 675 44 44

Fax

++41 56 675 44 42

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Ceo, president

Number of employees

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AWM's considerable know-how in the entire value-added chain of plastics injection molding technology and its broad and varied experience in a wide range of fields of application provide the basis for innovative and convincing solutions for customers.
New fields of application are continually opening up and new materials are being used in the relatively young plastics technology sector. One focus of our development work is in the field of multi-component injection molding. This involves manufacturing parts made from different plastics - for example, hard and soft elements or in different colours.
Together with universities and other institutions we are also closely involved in the development of nano-technology. Many engineering components call for miniaturization, high precision and low-cost production facilities for large unit volumes. Our experiments have shown that nano-structures can be produced with a replication accuracy of 25 nanometers using injection molding. These dimensions are far smaller than those of today's compact disc storage media.

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Samlab

Benj — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:08:17 +0000

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Web url

http://www-samlab.unine.ch/

Contact Email

info.samlab@unine.ch

Short description

Street address

Institute of Microtechnology, University of Neuchatel, Rue Jaquet-Droz 1

Zip or postal code

CH-2002

Telephone

++ 41 32 7205 121

Fax

++ 41 32 7205 711

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Ceo, president

Number of employees

Long description

The Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Laboratory was created in 1982 by the professor Nico F. de Rooij. Since then, SAMLAB has increased in size and has reached a staff of about 50 persons, including 15 PhD students.

SAMLAB is funded by the University of Neuchatel, the EPFL, the Commission of Technology and Innovation (KTI/CTI), the Swiss Federal Office for Education and Science, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Foundation for Microtechnology Research, the Swiss Priority Program in Micro- and Nanosystem Technology (MINAST). SAMLAB is also a "node" of the European Network of Excellence in Microsystems (NEXUS) and has been appointed Competence Centre for bio-analytical microsystems within the EC EUROPRACTICE initiative.

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Heptagon

ken.lee@heptagon.fi — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:09:29 +0000

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Web url

http://www.heptagon.fi/

Contact Email

info@heptagon.fi

Short description

Street address

Moosstrasse 2

Zip or postal code

CH-8803

Telephone

+41 (44) 497 30 00

Fax

+41 (44) 497 30 01

Foundation date

Ceo, president

Chuck Milligan

Number of employees

Long description

Our components deliver glass quality at the price of plastic components due to our proprietary production process.

In 2000, Heptagon acquired the replicated micro-optical elements manufacturing division of CSEM SA (Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique) in Zurich. Heptagon’s roots are in the world leading R&D on diffractive optics at the Helsinki University of Technology and the University of Joensuu, as well as the development and commercial application of production technology at CSEM Zurich. This gives Heptagon 20 years of micro-optics experience.

Our Background:

Heptagon is a Finnish-Swiss company and was established in 1993 to design and sell diffractive optical elements. In 2000, Heptagon acquired the replicated micro-optical elements manufacturing division of CSEM SA (Centre Suisse d’Electronique et de Microtechnique) in Zurich. Heptagon’s roots are in the world leading R&D on diffractive optics at the Helsinki University of Technology and the University of Joensuu, as well as the development and commercial application of production technology at CSEM Zurich. This gives Heptagon 20 years of micro-optics experience.

Our Offering:

Today, Heptagon develops, designs and manufactures diffractive and refractive micro-optical elements and sub-systems. Micro-optical elements are the next-generation of optical components and enable the collection, distribution and modification of light. These cost-effective miniature components are designed to replace conventional bulk optics with the additional benefit of greater functionality, resulting in new products that would not have been possible using conventional optics.

Exceeding our Customers' Expectations from Design to Production:

Heptagon supports the customer from initial concept and design implementation right through to full-scale production to ensure that new applications are developed in an integrated process. This “one-stop-shop approach” minimizes risk for customers and accelerates time to market.

Our Products and Services:

* diffractive and refractive micro-lenses
* pattern generators
* beam splitters
* optical modules
* nanoperiod gratings
* design
* prototyping
* volume production

Vision:

* Heptagon will be the world's leading photon delivery
company by providing better, smaller and lower-cost
micro-optics solutions to put photons where our customers need them

Mission:

* We enable innovative lighting, imaging and photonic products by developing and
delivering revolutionary micro-optics technology

* We design and deliver prototypes and high-volume production quickly, in-spec and
cost-effectively, providing our customers with better solutions and fast
time-to-market

* It is fun and rewarding for our employees to work for us and our customers and
partners to work with us

Core Competencies:

* We fully understand the impact of the realities of mastering and manufacturing on the
design of micro-optical components. Therefore we are able to deliver diffractive, refractive and hybrid micro-optical components in large volumes at high quality.

* With our proprietary production method, we are able to manufacture glass-like components at high volumes and at prices which are competitive to injection-molded plastic components.

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Seyonic SA

Benj — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:23:13 +0000

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Web url

http://www.seyonic.com/

Contact Email

Short description

Street address

Rue du Puits-Godet 12

Zip or postal code

CH-2000

Telephone

+41 32 729 2828

Fax

+41 32 729 2829

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Ceo, president

Number of employees

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Seyonic assists in the development of applications and also takes care of component manufacturing and specialized assembly and testing of OEM instrument sub-systems.

Seyonic is principally an OEM supplier. Our products are custom developed in close collaboration with our clients.

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Nano-Cluster Bodensee

Benj — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:04:04 +0000

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Web url

http://www.ncb.ch/

Contact Email

info@ncb.ch

Short description

Street address

Lerchenfeldstrasse 5

Zip or postal code

CH-9014

Telephone

+41 71 274 73 81

Fax

+41 71 274 73 86

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Ceo, president

Number of employees

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Nano Cluster "Bodensee" is an active contribution to the security, respectively promotion of welfare in our economic area.

* Economic realization of nano- and microtechnology research results and their implementation in the international area around the "Lake of Constance".
* Broad variety of ways to access nano- and microtechnology for the industry on site.

Our strength and our assignment lie in the implementation, hence, research is not our primary target. NCB, however, aims to make results and competencies of the local as well as of the international nano-research usable and accessible.

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Acrongenomics, Inc.

Benj — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 19:13:46 +0000

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Web url

http://www.acrongen.com/

Contact Email

info@acrongen.com

Short description

Street address

14 Rue Kleberg

Zip or postal code

CH-1201

Telephone

+41 22 716 5300

Fax

+41 22 716 5319

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Ceo, president

Number of employees

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ETH Zurich: Nano-Physics group

Benj — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 13:23:54 +0000

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Web url

http://www.nanophys.ethz.ch/

Contact Email

Short description

Street address

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), Building HPF Schafmattstr. 16