Nitto Denko Invests S$10 Million to Pioneer Organic Electronic Device Research in Singapore

Tokyo and Singapore, Dec 1, 2008 - (ACN Newswire) - Nitto Denko Corporation, a leading diversified materials company, today opened the Nitto Denko Asia Technical Centre (NAT), the company's second centre in Singapore to spearhead and manage its R&D operations. The new Centre will focus strongly on integrated organic electronic device development, making Nitto Denko the first company in Singapore to pioneer R&D in this area. The event was officiated by Mr Lim Chuan Poh, the Chairman of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Situated in the recently-opened Fusionopolis, NAT will undertake the company's Integrated Organic Optoelectronic Sensing Device Project in collaboration with the A*STAR Data Storage Institute (DSI), A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU).