慕尼黑欧洲有机和印刷电子展览会（LOPE-C）是一次展示有机和印刷电子业界最新动向的一次产业大会及展览会，每年一届，2012年转移在慕尼黑国际展览中心举行，有机及印刷电子会议提前一天举行，比展览多一天时间。 LOPE-C是欧洲有机电子协会主办的官方年会。此年会涵盖在有机，无机和印刷电子业中最新的商业和技术成就。 LOPE- C代表整个工业价值链- 从学术研究到研究，到生产，到商品化，从而到最终客户的发掘。主要内容包括： 照明、光伏、显示、电子产品及零件、集成智能系统 。
参加者和参展商的目标群体：企业及策略管理、业务及产品开发、融资和风险资本、企业研究与发展、学术研究与应用科学。游客的目标群体：化工行业、印刷业、电子行业（电子元件制造，传感器，电池，显示器）、包装和物流业、纺织行业、光伏、照明、汽车、出版商、消费类电子产品、制药业和医疗应用、品牌管理。
根据官方统计：2018年153家企业参展，2500名专业观众参加展会；2015年有133家企业参展，有2300专业人士观展；2014年有139家企业参展，有2000专业人士观展；2013年来自19个国家的110家企业参展，来自40个国家的1800名专业观众参加本次会议及展览；2012年，来自全球46个国家的观众达到1560人，比往年增加了36%，参展商104家，比往年增加了14%，展会面积3500平方米，比往年增加了40%。
展品范围(Show Products):
装置：有机薄膜晶体管、发光二极管、电致发光器、传感器、电池、记忆存储器等；
材料：有机和无机、碳和纳米材料、半导体、导体、电介质、基板；
加工：印刷和其它大面积的图案和涂层技术等；
设备：印刷、真空沉积、图案制作、涂层、测试和 测量、组装以及其它；
生产：每卷生产以及联机处理；
应用：灵活及可卷性的展示，照明，光伏，射频识别，消费电子，传感器，智能对象；
服务：研发，样机研究，生产，产业以及产权资产等；
最终用户：与包装和物流行业，客户电子产业，汽车业，航空业，商标管理业，药品和医疗应用产品业。
展会报告(Show Reports):
LOPEC 2024: Printed electronics drives sustainable products and solutions
176 exhibitors from 28 countries, including numerous start-ups
LOPEC proves its world-leading position with high internationality
Printed electronics strongly fosters e-mobility
LOPEC 2024 once again closed with a record number of exhibitors: 176 companies from 28 countries and more than 2,400 visitors from 48 countries came to the ICM at Messe München from March 5 to 7. The leading trade fair and most important conference in the industry provided information about innovations and trends for the whole range of flexible, organic and printed electronics. More and more end user industries – from automotive and renewable energies to healthcare – are using it as a key technology to make their products more environmentally friendly and sustainable.
“LOPEC has grown once again and is therefore the reflection of a dynamic industry. With a record number of exhibitors, aisles full of international experts and top-class presentations in the conference and supporting program, it impressively demonstrated that printed electronics is playing a leading role in more and more industries as an important key technology”, says Dr. Martin Lechner, Executive Director at Messe München. The variety of showcased products in which printed electronics is already being used ranged from muscle sensors for exoskeletons and wearables for health monitoring to battery management systems and intelligent paper applications. LOPEC Exhibition Director Armin Wittmann says: “We are proud, through LOPEC, to be supporting a technology that has a major impact on making our daily lives more environmentally friendly and sustainable. We look forward to being able to use the innovations presented at the trade fair in the future in everyday life.”
Stable growth for a dynamic industry
“LOPEC 2024 was a great success and has further strengthened its position as the most important marketplace for the industry,” says Dr. Klaus Hecker, Managing Director of the OE-A (Organic and Printed Electronics Association). “The visitors got the full picture of the flexible and printed electronics industry. They could see how broad the markets are in which printed electronics products are used. This broad product portfolio makes the industry resilient and the outlook very promising. The results of our recent OE-A Business Climate Survey predict revenue growth of 13 percent by 2024 and 17 percent by 2025.”
Conference brings together industry and science
At the LOPEC Conference, experts from leading industry players and renowned research institutes from 23 countries reported in around 180 presentations about the current status of the technology, its importance for sustainable production, and its potential for future developments. Representatives from companies such as Airbus, Altana, BMW, Covestro, Dai Nippon Printing, Fraunhofer, Heraeus, and Panasonic shared their expertise in various conference formats. “The LOPEC Conference has once again shown how important it is for international knowledge sharing in the industry and what makes it so special—its claim to shed light on the scientific and economic perspective and thus provide impetus to further develop the printed and flexible electronics market,” explains Wolfgang Mildner, General Chair of LOPEC.
Industry leaders and newcomers
The mood among the exhibitors was excellent. “We are looking back to a great exhibition with a busy booth where we could show to the international visitors printed electronics applications for e-mobility. It’s great to see that plenty of applications shown at LOPEC are driven by sustainability,” says Dr. Alain Schumacher, CTO at IEE and Vice Chair of the OE-A Board. Michael Stromann, Head of Business Development at tesa, agrees: “This year is our first time exhibiting at LOPEC and our experience has been totally positive. LOPEC is a good platform for us to engage in dialogue with partners and manufacturers and to promote collaboration for more sustainable solutions in printed electronics." Karine Benbelaid, Global Head of Medical Segment at Covestro, also appreciates LOPEC as a platform to scout for new application fields of printed electronics, to collaborate efficiently and to expand the network along the value chain. Numerous other key players in the industry took part as exhibitors as well, including Agfa, Coatema, Eastman Kodak, E Ink, Elantas, Fujifilm Dimatix, Henkel, Heraeus and Panasonic. With twelve start-ups, there were more newcomers exhibiting at the trade fair than ever before.
LOPEC in figures
176 exhibitors traveled from 28 countries and regions, with around 60 percent of them from abroad. The top five exhibiting countries besides Germany were the USA, France, Sweden and Spain. There were more than 2,400 visitors from 48 countries and regions. The share of international visitors totaled around 55 percent. The top five visitor countries besides Germany were Austria, France, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Finland.
The next LOPEC takes place in Munich from February 25-27, 2025 (exhibition: February 26 and 27).
