Berg Electronics' GXT(TM) plating certified by FCC as equivalent to industry's standard 50 micro inch gold.ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 1995--Berg Electronics is pleased to announce that the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. has issued a public notice stating that Berg's 30 micro inches of GXT GXT Graded Exercise Testing (cardiac testing) (TM) ("Better-than-Gold") plating meets the same requirements as the industry's standard 50 micro inch gold plating For other uses, see Gold plating (disambiguation). Gold plating is a method of depositing a thin layer of gold onto the surface of another metal, most often copper or silver, by chemical or electrochemical means. normally used in the manufacture of standard plugs and jacks. "This means that our GXT(TM) plating is the only plating in the world, other than 50 micro inches of gold, that meets the FCC requirements," said Ron Holler, product marketing manager. "We are now in a position to offer significant cost savings to any modular jack customer who is currently using the 50 micro inch gold plating." In its Public Notice, the FCC states that Berg has demonstrated "the equivalency of nongold to gold contact plating requirements that are specified in Part 68 for standard plugs and jacks." Furthermore, Berg's "nongold 30 micro inch GXT(TM) plating system passes the 250 cycles of durability and meets the contact resistance requirements after exposure to the temperature and humidity requirements of the TSB TSB TPS (Thermal Protection System) Sample Box TSB Technical Service Bulletin TSB Transportation Safety Board of Canada TSB Telecommunication Standardization Bureau TSB Trustee Savings Bank TSB Telecommunications Systems Bulletin 31 test suite." "This certification proves once again that Berg Electronics is a technology leader in the connector industry," said Robert N. Mills, president. "We will continue to offer alternative solutions that are equally reliable to that of our competitors' products. We want to make it easy for our customers to do business with Berg." Berg Electronics, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., USA is a leading worldwide supplier of connector, socket, and cable assembly products, with annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. sales in excess of $600 million. Berg's broad range of products serve high-end data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a , personal computing Refers to users working on their own computers rather than a terminal to a mainframe. Sometimes, the term refers to using computers at home for work and/or entertainment in contrast to business use only. See personal computer. , telecommunications, industrial and instrumentation markets. Employing more than 4,700 people worldwide, Berg's design engineering and manufacturing facilities are strategically located in the USA, the Netherlands, France, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea and India. CONTACT: Berg Electronics Inc., St. Louis Ellie Rovai, 314/878-5560 |
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