SEMICON Japan 2025 live: Watttron talks heating tech for packaging and semiconductors
19 Dec 2025 | Watttron
Klaudiusz Holeczek, business development manager and head of R&D at Watttron, presents the company's digital pixel-level heating technology. We explored how its precise thermal control enhances material efficiency and supports packaging innovation.
This is Zhong Wang from CNS Media, a journalist from Packaging Insight.
Today I'm speaking with Mr.
Halace from W.
Welcome.
Yes.
So could you please tell us what you're presenting at the trade show today?
We are presenting generally our heating technology.
Which is unique and it's based on heating pixels, and we are showing how to how you can use this advanced advanced technology to control the temperature on a very, very precise level.
How pixel level heating technology improve precision and material efficiency in modern packaging process.
Since the flow properties of polymer materials or thermoplastics are directly connected with the temperature, we can through applying of some special developed for special packaging temperature profiles reduce.
Usage of material by up to 50%.
That is impressive.
So what kind of packaging formats The most you have packaging that has very high drawing ratios.
The higher the better, and Very big and complex ones.
So how does precise heating help manufacturers reliably work with recyclable sustainable materials with the new monomaterials and sustainable materials, normally the processing window, it becomes much more narrow than.
When you use normal materials, materials there are some plastifiers inside, and since we are very precise, we allow our customers to set the temperature and to keep the temperature exactly at the level that they needed.
So that's one aspect.
And the second one, which is even more interesting.
Is that we are such precise and we keep the temperature on some very specific level independent on the Thermal load on the film that we are processing and we know exactly how much work, electrical work needs to be done to keep that temperature.
So every time when there is some abbreviation in the normal process, we detect it.
So at the end you have a heating system which you can use also for inland quality control.
You are not checking the quality of the thermoform film afterwards or the ceiling, but exactly during this process.
OK, so how does your approach where pixel both heat and sensors help create the ultra stable hyperlocalized thermal environment that's needed for the water process?
With the welfare processing, it is even more important and more crucial to have the temperature under control.
And with some special calibration procedure that we applied, we could improve the temperature control up to the level of 0.1 °C, and that's actually a level that it's not reachable right now, even in the semiconductor industry, but that's what they need to do in the next step.
OK, so as a company that traditionally focuses in the packaging sector, what upcoming innovations or strategic developments are you focusing on to further expand your technology across different industries?
Doing two things at the same time, we are improving our inland quality control algorithm and we are rolling it right now out.
We have 2 customers that are testing our system right now.
And when this test will be finished, we will roll it out for every customer worldwide, and that's one part.
And the second one, we are applying our precise heating pixel technology to other industry branches.
Right now here we are focusing on semiconductor industry, but actually we are also.
Working with biotech, with automotive, with food science, with testing machines, with everywhere where you need the temperature precise under control.
Thank you.
