Year

Innovation/achievement

1989

Effect Polymers group established at Wilton Centre by ICI Materials

1989 - 1994

European and UK projects on organic non-linear optics

1991 - 1994

Monomode waveguide splitter for optic fibre telecoms network (output of LINK project "Pacts")

1992 - 1995

European BRITE project on conducting polymers

1994 - 1997

Multimode waveguide optical backplane for PCB interconnection (output of LINK project "Oims")

October 1995

Epigem founded as contract R&D company by management team

1995 - 1996

Rotation encoder disc with <0.01% ellipticity and high diffraction efficiency (36% @ 633nm)

Optical backplane using planar optics and sub-micron diffraction grating (both outputs of EUREKA "Fota" project)

1996 - 1997

Europractice microsystems prototyping and manufacturing service provider

1996 - 1999

Microlens arrays for integral photography and 3-D image display (output of LINK project "Laird")

1997 - 2000

Display backlight (output of the UK "Display Technology Alliance" Foresight project)

1998

600 channel flexible fan-in optical circuit

1999 - 2002

"Lab on a chip" Link Foresight project

2000

Epigem expands and opens manufacturing facilities at Redcar

2000 - 2002

SMART project award "Emit" on fine line flexible circuitry

2000 - 2002

European project on polymer nanotechnology