CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGOM,  – Cambridge Display Technology (CDT), the leading researcher and commercial developer of light emitting polymer (LEP) technology, and owner of the fundamental intellectual property for LEPs, today announced the appointment of Michael Urwin as director, manufacturing and technology transfer.

Urwin brings to CDT nearly twenty years experience in the display industry. This includes the senior management of large scale manufacturing operations for high volume display markets, spanning display fields from Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) to Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) technology, most recently for LG Philips Displays. Urwin will be primarily responsible for CDT’s newly completed US$25m LEP Technology Development Centre located in Godmanchester, UK and for establishing a team to transfer process and engineering packages to licensees of CDT.

“CDT’s LEP Technology Development Centre demonstrates advanced manufacturing technology and processes that are making LEP technology a commercial reality,” said David Fyfe, CEO at CDT. “ Michael Mike Urwin’s expertise in successfully managing the operation and development of manufacturing capabilities for global OEMs brings to CDT the right skills to ensure that its LEP technology development stays at the front of the requirements of commercial display market introduction”.   

Urwin joins CDT from LG Philips Displays where he held the position of plant director and global components optimisation manager of the deflection yoke business. He was responsible for the management of operations, which included the annual manufacture and supply of electrical components for the TV industry, and held global responsibility for product design, industrial planning and benchmarking.

Prior to LG Philips Displays, Urwin spent eleven years with Philips Components in a variety of roles including integral manufacturing team manager and mask forming, screen process and manufacturing manager, based in the UK and Germany. He also has work experience in a Japanese electronics operation, Toshiba. Here Urwin was involved with some of the first industrialisation of Active Matrix displays.