HISTORY

2010 TBF welcomes KISCO Ltd as an exclusive distributor of TBF products in the Asia Pacific region and as a shareholder.

KISCO Ltd is a Japanese Multination with representative offices in many countries around the world.
2009 TBF is born!

The core technical team continues to drive the scaling up process to meet customer requests for samples.
2008 The team develops an optical grade high performance barrier film.

The team also begins the final count-down to spin-off and begins the fund-raising process.
2007 The team develops a graded film technology to provide different barrier properties to cater to differing needs of the industry.

The core team continues to execute on their scale up activities.
2006 IMRE patents a calcium sensor integrated into the permeation test, giving the permeation testing machine an added level of sensitivity, further enhancing it’s measurement capability.

IMRE also patents a revolutionary barrier stack technology using nanoparticulate material that allows for better performance with lower production cost. The dream of a fully flexible display takes a step closer to reality.

The core team of Mark and Senthil obtains funding from Exploit Technologies, the commercial arm of A*STAR, to incubate and undertake scale up activities for the barrier substrate technology.

TBF is conceived!
2003 IMRE develops and patents permeation test machine that surpasses existing testing capabilities.

IMRE also develops and patents encapsulation technology suitable for flexible substrates.
2000 IMRE develops an encapsulation process for solid substrates.
1999 The Institute of Materials Research and Engineering begins a key research thrust in Organic Light Emitting Devices, and with it the potential of flexible displays.

Barrier substrate technology is one of the key research focus of the program.