Tech supplier to deliver equipment for space-based solar panels

FOM Technologies will supply equipment to a project at the University of Toledo planning to launch solar panels into space. The CEO's initial reaction is quite earthbound, however.
Photo: FOM Technologies/PR
Photo: FOM Technologies/PR

Many companies delight in telling the story of their corporate journeys, and Danish technology supplier FOM Technologies is no exception in this regard. From its ambition to develop a new method of applying ultra-thin coatings to things like solar panels when the company was spun off from the Technical University of Denmark's (DTU) Risø campus in 2012, to launching machines for so-called slot-die coating and then to last year's IPO and recent establishment of a US subsidiary.

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