2nd important replacement with experience in the industry at Heliatek
Dresden, 29nd January 2010 – After being able to win over Dr. Andreas Rückemann as CEO already in November 2008, Heliatek now filled another key position with an industry experienced top-class specialist: Since January 2010, Michael U. Mohr is working for Heliatek as VP Production.
Having received his Ph. D. in organic chemistry at the Max-Planck-Institute in Heidelberg, Dr. Rückemann held several management positions at the multinational company Evonik for about 15 years. Having gained experience on corporate development and investment planning, he became operations manager of the production line. Then he was engaged several years in the reorganization of the Evonik GmbH within Mergers & Acquisitions. In recent years, he was leading a subsidiary company abroad and was additionally responsible for the global electronics-business of a business unit of the Evonik GmbH in Frankfurt/Main.
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Death of Harald Eggers
Dresden - January 18, 2010 - Dr. h.c. Harald Eggers, has passed away on January 6th, 2010 after long and severe illness.
With his death we are not only loosing an excellent companion but also a very good friend.
Harald Eggers was one of our co-founders and Heliatek's first CEO. He shaped the company in its early stages and made a substantial contribution to the first financing round with BASF, Bosch and Wellington Partners.
His cooperation with friends and colleagues was always characterized by mutual respect and acceptance. His leadership deployed many innovative ideas based on a global perspective paired with profound understanding and vision. These thoughts and his spirit will provide a lasting guidance to all of us.
He especially focused on fostering young entrepreneurs in the high tech area in Saxony. He always provided encouragement and guidance to help them grow and prosper.
We will keep Harald's memory alive.
The funeral service was held at his hometown in Leeste/Weyhe (nearby Bremen) within his family.
Heliatek receives US$ 27 million to continue development of organic solar cells
Dresden, November 26, 2009. Heliatek GmbH, a pioneer in the field of organic solar cells, is receiving US$ 27 million (€ 18 million) in a second round of financing under the lead of the pan-European venture capital firm Wellington Partners. Also participating in this round are the industrial investor Bosch and the corporate venture capital investors RWE Innogy Ventures and BASF Venture Capital, the High-Tech-Gründerfonds, eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG, the Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen Start-up GmbH & Co. KG and GP Bullhound Sidecar. Heliatek will be utilizing the new funding primarily to build an initial production facility in Dresden. In this step and right through to mass production, the company will be using its proprietary tandem technology to efficiently produce, flexible and very lightweight PV modules on a film substrate. Their weight will be merely 500 grams per square meter, instead of today’s customary 20 kilograms per square meter. This will open up a forward-looking market for mobile applications, for architectural solutions and for independently supplying regions with weak infrastructures.
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Heliatek Shortlisted for Cleantech Award as Part of Audemars Piguet “Changing Times” European Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Awards
Dresden – 12 November, 2009 – Heliatek has won a place on the shortlist for the Cleantech Award, part of the Audemars Piguet “Changing Times” European Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, co-sponsored by Schroder & Co Banque and European Tech Tour. The winner will be announced on 19th November 2009 at the Award dinner in Geneva.
The selection committee is composed of representatives from Google, Good Energies, the European Tech Tour Association (ETT), Wellington Partners, Sofinnova, Go4Venture, Partech, Accel Partners, Index Ventures, Balderton Capital and Northzone Ventures.
Each year a vertical market is singled out for a special award and this year sees the turn of Cleantech. Companies submitting entries for the Awards had to be able to demonstrate an annual growth rate of at least 50% for the past three years, be founded no more than 10 years’ ago and have revenue originating from several countries. European origin management is preferred and ideally the company should still be run by the founders...
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Heliatek: Organic Solar Cells reach 6 % confirmed efficiency
Heliatek GmbH (Dresden/Ulm) develops organic solar cells consisting of so called “small molecules” - organic dyes which are synthesized from hydrocarbons. Those solar cells are characterized by low cost, short energy payback time and inexhaustible availability of raw materials.
In excess of low expenses, the customer’s benefits are highly flexible and light-weight modules
(0.5 kg/m²), since the future product is going to be manufactured on foil substrates in a continuous vacuum coating process.
Recently, Fraunhofer ISE certified a power conversion efficiency of 6.07 % for a tandem solar cell using Heliatek’s proprietary tandem cell technology. The cell with an active area of 2 cm² already possesses many of the essential characteristics of a large solar module. It was developed by Heliatek in cooperation with the Institute of Applied Photo Physics (IAPP) of the Technical University of Dresden based on results of the projects “Innoprofile” and “OPEG”, both sponsored by BMBF. The result represents an important milestone on Heliatek’s way to production of organic solar cells. In medium-term, it is planned to increase the conversation efficiency to 10%.
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