Harro Höfliger has entered a strategic col­lab­o­ra­tion with peptech GmbH. The high-tech start-up from Kernen im Rem­stal near Stuttgart spe­cial­izes in flex­ible and printed elec­tronics, for use in med­ical tech­nology. The pos­sible uses range from mon­i­toring the stretch of an elastic ban­dage to meas­uring the fin­gertip pres­sure of a pros­thetic hand.

Thanks to this spe­cial tech­nology, sen­sors can be used where it was pre­viously not tech­ni­cally pos­sible. As part of the cooperation,
Harro Höfliger and peptech will carry out joint devel­op­ment studies, with an aim to sup­ple­ment existing processes with these new tech­nolo­gies. In some projects, spe­cial pres­sure sen­sors are used, which are highly flex­ible and thinner than a human hair. 

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