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5.12.2007 Enfucell strengthens its leadership team and appoints Mr. Juha Koskinen as CEO and Mr. Risto Huvila as COO. Mr. Markku Paukku appointed as President of Enfucell, Inc. (USA), and Mr. Timo Kärkkäinen as VP of Production. (see press release in English see press release in Finnish).


15.8.2007 Enfucell shareholders’ meeting has appointed Mr. Antti Kivimaa, CEO of Ruukki Group Plc, and Mr. Juha Koskinen, a management consultant, to join its Board of Directors. They join on the Board Dr. Jussi Suomela, Prof. Aarne Halme, and Dr. Xia-Chang Zhang, Enfucell’s Chief technology officer and the developer of the SoftBattery™, who are all founding members of Enfucell, Ltd. Read more (see press release in Finnish see press release in English).


15.5.2007 The board of Enfucell has released company’s CEO Jaakko Happonen from his duties on May 10, 2007 with immediate effect because of differences in view. The board has nominated Risto Huvila, now VP Sales & Marketing as Acting CEO. The board will start a recruitment process to select a new CEO. These changes have no impact on the company’s commitments or strategy.

For more information please contact:
Dr. Jussi Suomela, Chairman of the Board, mobile +358 50 337 7704
Risto Huvila, CEO (Acting), mobile +358 400 755 661
e-mails are firstname.familyname@enfucell.com
 

19.3.2007 Red Herring today announced that ENFUCELL LTD, Espoo, Finland is a recipient of Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region each year (read more in English, in Finnish)

16.3.2007 Dr. Xia-Chang Zhang, CTO of Enfucell and the father of the SoftBatteryTM, has been selected as one of the 26 finalists in an award winning contest, “You Bring Charm To The World As An Influential Chinese 2006” .

In the year 2006 the growing prominence of the Chinese on the world stage together with the outstanding performance of many Chinese throughout the world saw influential and creative Chinese attract worldwide attention. The Awards are designed to honor and commend those influential Chinese who have made the greatest contribution to mankind in 2006. The Awards Ceremony where the 10 winners will be announced will be held on March 31, 2007 in Beijing.

The contest is co-hosted by ten major Chinese media organisations, including Phoenix Satellite Television and Phoenix New Media, Hong Kong Ming Pao Daily Group, Malaysia Sin Chew Daily, US World Journal, China News Service, Beijing Youth Daily, Nan Fang Daily Group, Sina.com, and Baidu.com.

Dr. Zhang left China for Finland in 1990 to pursue the doctor degree at the Helsinki University of Technology, and he’s been living in Finland ever since. Today he is also a Finnish citizen. He has vast experiences in bioprocess monitoring and control, biological fuel cell and thin flexible battery technology from the international research work he led in the last two decades.

More info http://phtv.phoenixtv.com/hotspot/331/

(31.1.2007) Enfucell Ltd. receives 377.000 € product development loan from Tekes, The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, to develop its award winning SoftBatteryTM applications in the cosmetics and medical field.

“We expect our SoftBattery will bring remarkable value and benefits to both cosmetics and medical industry in the near future”, says Jaakko Happonen, CEO of Enfucell Ltd, and the company believes the SoftBattery will boost the development of low voltage electric products in the both industries; anti-aging masks and patches in cosmetics and wound treatment, bruise cure and pain relief on the medical side.

(23-1-2007) Enfucell CEO Jaakko Happonen visiting Davos to receive the Technology Pioneer 2007 award

Enfucell CEO Jaakko Happonen and his wife Auli travelled to Davos celebrating Technology Pioneer 2007 Award given by the World Economic Forum. Jaakko will address a speech on Friday 26.1. at the Pioneers and Pitches session.

(15-1-2007) Risto Huvila appointed as new Vice President Sales & Marketing

Risto Huvila started as Vice President at Enfucell Ltd. on January 2nd, 2007. Mr. Huvila’s areas of responsibility include sales, marketing and communication.
Prior to joining Enfucell Mr. Huvila has worked as a management consultant and trainer since 2001 at Cumulatum International. Huvila has also served several Finnish corporations in management positions, including Sonera and Sanoma Corporations.

(4-12-2006)

 Enfucell Ltd. was selected Technology Pioneer 2007 by the World Economic Forum. Read more...

Time Magazine

(3-12-2006)

Flat Battery: It Works On Paper. Read more...

Information Week

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Paper Battery Developer Gets Funding

The SoftBattery is intended for use as a power source in disposable gear, including cosmetics, greeting cards, sensors, smart cards, and electronic paper.

By Peter Clarke
EE Times

March, 24, 2006 09:23 AM

LONDON — Enfucell Ltd., a startup founded in June 2002 as a spin-off from the Automation Laboratory of Helsinki University of Technology, has gathered 600,000 euros (about $715,000) in funding for the research, development and commercialization of thin flexible paper battery technology.

Building on ten years experience developing miniature power sources Enfucell scientists have invented a battery with a printable layer structure and which uses paper containing the electrolyte as the separator between anode and cathode.

Replicon Corporate Finance Ltd. (Helsinki, Finland) has acted as an advisor to Enfucell (Espoo, Finland) with a target of raising a “major financial package” to allow the company to strike out for global sales for its “SoftBattery” in one to two years, Replicon said.

The SoftBattery is intended for use as a power source in disposable microelectronic equipment such as cosmetics, greetings cards, sensors, smart cards, LEDs on paper, electronic paper, bistable non-volatile displays, and active RFID tags. These applications usually require up to 1 milliwatt of power and are suited to Enfucell’s technology, which is based on traditional paper printing.

Enfucell claims the printable battery has a number of advantages over button cell batteries including: low-cost, environmentally friendly, disposable with household waste, flexible in size and shape and easy integration with applications.

The paper battery converts chemical energy directly into electricity. Metal is oxidized at one side of paper and manganese oxide, or other oxides, is reduced on the reverse of the paper when the battery is connected, the company said at its Web site. The metal can be zinc, aluminum, nickel and so on and the paper contains the electrolyte.

The battery provides around 1.5 volts if metal zinc and manganese oxide are used and the supply is stable over a wide temperature and humidity range, Enfucell claimed. The different voltage requirements of various applications can be realized by using multiple batteries in series, using different chemical materials or applying fuel cell technology, the company added.

Jaakko Happonen is listed as the company’s chief executive officer and Xia-Chang Zhang is listed as the chief technology officer.
 

JDN Solutions

(http://solutions.journaldunet.com/)

Le finlandais Enfucell lève 600 000 euros
(27/03/2006)


Start-up finlandaise à l’initiative d’une technologie de batterie miniaturisée, Enfucell vient de conclure une levée de fonds à hauteur de 600 000 euros. Cette spin-off du laboratoire d’automatisation de l’université des technologies d’Helsinki a conçu son offre de batterie, affichant une capacité de 1.5 volts, pour répondre aux caractéristiques des équipements microélectroniques, tels les cartes à puce et les étiquettes RFID actives.
 

Wiener Zeitung

(http://www.wienerzeitung.at}

Papierpower

Die flexible SoftBattery. (© Enfucell)

Von Francesco Campagner / WZ Online


Das papierlose Büro ist eine jener Metaphern, die, wenn sie von IT-Verkaufsstrategen verwendet wird, allgemeines Schmunzeln hervorruft. Das finnische Unternehmen Enfucell will das Papier dagegen nicht verbannen, sondern setzt es bei biegsamen Batterien ein.
Es dient als Elektrolyt und trennt die Anode von der Kathode. Die so genannte SoftBattery besitzt laut dem Unternehmen einige Vorteile gegenüber handelsüblichen Batterien. Sie ist billig, umweltfreundlich, flexibel in Größe sowie Form und kann in verschiedensten Applikationen verwendet werden.

Nun hat das Startup-Unternehmen 600.000 Euro Investionskapital erhalten, um die SoftBattery in den nächsten zwei Jahren am Markt zu positionieren. Anwendungsgebiete sind vorwiegend mikroelektronische Produkte wie Smart Cards oder RFID-Chips.

Montag, 27. März 2006