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August 20, 2009
Plextronics Closes $14 Million Financing Round

August 12, 2009
Plextronics Becomes the First Company to Deploy Organic Solar Modules at NREL’s Outdoor Testing Facility

July 14, 2009
Organic Electronics Association Elects New Board of Directors

June 26, 2009
Former Secretary of PA Department of Environmental Protection McGinty Joins Plextronics as Advisor

June 25, 2009
Plextronics’ Hires Vice President of Operations & Quality Manager

June 23, 2009
Plextronics & NTERA Team-up at LOPE-C to Demonstrate Solar-Powered NanoChromics™ Displays

May 15, 2009
Hannah Selected as 2009 Katz School of Business Distinguished Alumni

April 21, 2009
Plextronics Featured in Video on Pittsburgh’s Green Economy

March 13, 2009
Plextronics, Inc. Selected as a GoingGreen East Top 50 Company

January 28, 2009
Plextronics Marks the Opening of its New Development Line at a Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony

January 5, 2009
Andy Hannah Elected to the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance

December 18, 2008
Plexcore® Printable Ink Improves Performance in Advanced Polymer OLED Devices

December 12, 2008
Plextronics Wins Technical Development Materials Award from IDTechEx

December 5, 2008
Plextronics Named One of the Best Places to Work in Pennsylvania

October 6, 2008
Plextronics Awarded $1.2 million in Government Funding for Flexible Printed Electronics with the U.S. Military

October 2, 2008
International Summit Works Toward Establishing Measurement Standards for Organic Solar Cell Technology

September 16, 2008
Plextronics Selected as a GoingGreen Top 100 Company

September 1, 2008
IMEC and Plextronics Collaborate on High-efficiency Reproducible Organic Solar Cells

August 26, 2008
Plextronics One of the Fastest Growing Companies in Pittsburgh: Ranks #1 in Manufacturing, #6 in the City

June 17, 2008
Plextronics Offers its Solar Cell Inks in Research Quantities

June 10, 2008
Sigma-Aldrich Signs Agreement with Plextronics to Distribute Plexcore® Organic Electronics Materials

April 28, 2008
Plextronics Featured on 'NewsHour with Jim Lehrer' on PBS

March 25, 2008
Plextronics to Receive Funding fromPennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center

December 18, 2007
Plextronics’ Chief Financial Officer Named One of The Pittsburgh Business Times
2007 CFO’s of the Year

November 14, 2007
Plextronics' CEO Andy Hannah Honored as Printed Electronics Champion

November 6, 2007
Plextronics receives investment from Applied Ventures

September 4, 2007
Plextronics Makes List of Top 10 Startups in Greentech

August 30, 2007
Plextronics Closes $20.6 Million Series B Financing: Global Chemical Company Solvay Leads Round with $10 Million Investment

August 9, 2007
Plextronics' Organic Solar Cell Technology Breaks World Record

June 25, 2007
Plextronics, Inc. has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL)

June 21, 2007
Plextronics awarded Funding by the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar America Initiative

May 2, 2007
Plextronics a Winner of the Red Herring 100 Spring 2007

April 9, 2007
PA NanoMaterials Commercialization Center Funds Plextronics' Plexcore PV

April 4, 2007
Plextronics is a Red Herring Top 100 Finalist

March 19, 2007
Organic Electronics Association has New Board of Directors: Hannah Named Vice Chairman

February 7, 2007
USDC Awards Plextronics Phase II of $1.8 Million Contract

January 31, 2007
Materials for Printed Electronics to Grow to $7.7 billion by 2012

January 23, 2007
Plextronics Receives Technology Funding for Plexcore PV for Solar Cells

January 23, 2007
Plextronics Receives $750,000 in Funding to Further Development of Plexcore PV for Organic Solar Cells

December 12, 2006
Plextronics Named Clean Energy Entrepreneur of the Year

November 28, 2006
Plextronics Ranked in Top 50 Nanotechnology Start-ups by Lux Research

October 4, 2006
Plextronics Wins 2006 Start-up of the Year at the Organic Semiconductor Industry Awards

September 13, 2006
Plextronics Recognized by The Wall Street Journal for Technology Innovation

August 15, 2006
Plextronics Completes $13.1 Million Series A Financing

July 25, 2006
Plextronics Signs Hole Injection Layer Technology License Agreement with Northwestern University

May 18, 2006
Plextronics to address House Subcommittee regarding Solar Energy

May 2, 2006
Richard McCullough, Plextronics’ Chief Scientist, Wins the Carnegie Science Center’s Award of Excellence: Start-up Entrepreneur of the Year

April 25, 2006
Timothy Swager, MIT Conductive Polymer Pioneer, to Lead Plextronics' TAB

March 29, 2006
Plextronics Gets Funding

March 29, 2006
Company wants to shed light on latest innovation

March 28, 2006
West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund Invests $500,000 in Plextronics for Solid State White Lighting Development

February 13, 2006
Printable electronics is attracting growing interest and gearing up for commercial applications

February 10, 2006
Printed Solar Cells in Development

February 1, 2006
Interview of Andy Hannah, CEO

January 18, 2006
Plextronics Sponsors USDC Conference -- Dr. Troy Hammond to Speak

January 17, 2006
Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority Awards Plextronics $1.0 Million for Plexcore PV “Solar Cell Acceleration”

January 4, 2006
Joseph Carr, OLED Visionary, Joins Plextronics Board of Directors

November 29, 2005
Plextronics Awarded USDC R&D Contract to Further OLED Development

November 1, 2005
A World Without Silicon?

October 24, 2005
Plextronics Receives 2005 Technology Innovation Award for Plexcore

June 23, 2005
Plextronics Inc. will receive $300,000 to fund the research necessary for development of the next generation of solar cells based on polymer technology.

March 9, 2005
Plextronics and Elo TouchSystems Announce R&D Agreement to Develop Resistive Touch Panel

November 8, 2004
Plextronics to Present at MicroVentures 2004

November 1, 2004
It's Electrifying: Coverage of Commercial Applications for Inherently Conductive Polymers Conference

October 26, 2004
Plextronics Announces Sharpened Focus on Electronics

October 6, 2004
Plextronics Named to InnovationWORLD 21

October 1, 2004
Conducting the Future

June 4, 2004
Plextronics to Present at the 2004 New York Venture Summit

May 26, 2004
Carnegie Mellon spinoff hopes to tap into conductive polymers market

May 26, 2004
Radio Tags to Boost Demand for Plastics

May 25, 2004
Plextronics Raises $3.4M

May 25, 2004
Plextronics secures $3.4 million in funding

May 24, 2004
Carnegie Mellon spinoff hopes to tap into conductive polymers market

May 24, 2004
USPlextronics wins funds for conductive polymer expansion

May 24, 2004
Plextronics lands $3.4 million

May 24, 2004
Plextronics Announces $3.4 Million Financing Round

May 24, 2004
DCED Announcement Financial Support of Plextronics

May 24, 2004
Conductive Plastics Firm Plextronics Lands $3.4M Series A

April 5, 2004
Nano News: Plextronics a Spinout from Carnegie Mellon

March 30, 2004
A One Step Process to Produce Highly Conductive Polymer Nanowires

November 1, 2003
Glenn Thompson joins as COO

October 27, 2003
Plextronics Receives its Third $100,000 Innovation Investment

October 1, 2003
Static Free Start-up

May 15, 2003
Plextronics Recieves Second $100,00 Innovation Investment

October 4, 2002
Plextronics Receives $100,000 Innovation Investment

September 12, 2002
Robert Gariano joins Plextronics' Board