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Pune Inc | From mountain chill to made-in-India innovation: Startup ‘prints’ warmth into lightweight jackets

The Indian Express·Dipanita Nath·28 days ago
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Yash Goliya enjoyed travelling but felt weighed down by the thick jackets he had to carry to some of Europe’s scenic and coldest mountains. Regular winter jackets could not be used in any other season. “That’s what made me think that we should have some clothing that we can wear in all seasons. We began to apply our printed technology methods (in which electronics are not assembled from components but deposited like ink on any substrate) to make heated jackets,” says Goliya. There were heated jackets that used stitched conductive thread or bulky carbon fibre, but Goliya discovered that printing conductive ink onto thermoplastic polyurethane produced lighter, minimally stiff jackets that allowed for complex circuitry. Mumbai -based Goliya, whose startup journey has been honed at Venture Center in Pune , is the founder of Suryudey Plastic Electronics Pvt Ltd, which “treats electronics the way a printer treats ink, depositing it directly onto any surface and in any shape”.…

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