SID Display Week 2008: Growing Markets Meet Next-Generation Technologies in Germany

Berlin (ots) - Germany is a leading European market for flat panel
displays. In 2007, nearly 4.5 million units of liquid crystal display
(LCD) and plasma television sets were sold in Germany. Germany's
large consumer market plus the country's strong R&D landscape and the
presence of next-generation companies are attracting investors from
all points on the value chain to Germany. Companies can learn about
potential investment opportunities in Germany at the SID Display Week
in Los Angeles, California, May 18-23, 2008.

Market volume in Germany for flat panel display (FPD) TVs has
grown by an average annual rate of 167% over the last five years.
Germany's dense network of suppliers for materials, components, and
equipment enables new entrants to be close to business partners as
well as customers. Furthermore Germany's stellar infrastructure
allows for products to move rapidly throughout the country and for
firms to use Germany as a distribution point to any location
worldwide.

The German market is also attracting flat panel display investors
because it is a platform where a growing market can interact with
market leaders engaging in next-generation research. For example, in
printed electronics and organic semiconductor innovation, Germany is
a center for groundbreaking industrial developments.

In 2007, the British company Plastic Logic Ltd. chose the eastern
German city of Dresden as its location for volume production of
flexible displays that will allow end-users to read books or
newspapers in a hand-held and electric form.

This investment came soon after the Scottish firm Micro Emissive
Displays (MED) announced that it would be opening a production
location in Dresden to assemble its trademarked polymer
organic-light-emitting-diode (P-OLED) eyescreen product.

The presence of world-renowned research institutes, such as the
Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems (IPMS), fast approval
procedures, and the proximity to business partners were major reasons
that the two companies chose Dresden and Germany.

These investments show that at all points on the supply chain
companies can find success in Germany. Furthermore the availability
of government incentives, that sometimes cover up to 50% of
investment costs, makes Germany an even more promising investment
location.

Invest in Germany is the inward investment promotion agency of the
Federal Republic of Germany. It provides investors with comprehensive
support from site selection to the implementation of investment
decisions.

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