EB's Bright Future

"There is always development going on in application-specific areas but the next steps in EB technology are really more commercial in nature," Maguire says. "[Depending on the application,] much of the equipment, chemistry, and application developments are complete. Most of the supply chain, i.e. film, ink, coating, and equipment suppliers, are now in the commercialization phase of these completed developments and plan to globalize in the coming months and years.