Concord Camera Corp. Inaugurates the 'Ira J. Hechler' Digital Camera Manufacturing Facility.Business Editors HOLLYWOOD, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 4, 2000 Concord Camera Corp. (&uot;Concord&uot;) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on National Market: LENS) recently dedicated its new digital camera manufacturing facility in honor of the late Ira J. Hechler, a former member of the Concord Camera Corp. Board of Directors. This new facility is located on the site of the Company's China manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. , which is comprised of over 400,000 square feet of manufacturing facilities and has a staff in excess of 5,000. Concord is pleased to announce this new production facility dedicated to digital imaging capture device manufacturing. Two-thirds of the facility is comprised of clean rooms where the ambient air (particle count) is controlled to a class 10,000 or better. Special gowns are worn by all in this clean environment so as to maintain a high level of sterility. Routine daily air quality measurements have shown that the typical particle count is better than class 3,000. In addition to the clean room environment, each floor has ESD (1) (Electronic Software Distribution) Distributing new software and upgrades via the network rather than individual installations on each machine. See ESL. (electro static discharge) controlled conductive floors and full climate control features. Over and above the latest modern assembly equipment, Concord has automated electronics function testers, automated assembly full function testers and optical characterization measurement testers. The new facility has a fully trained and dedicated on-site staff comprised of operators, engineers (mechanical, electrical and optical), and production managers and supervisors. On site, Concord has other technical and manufacturing resources available on demand, and the ability to call on the other Concord design and development (electronic, mechanical and optical) engineers located in nearby Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. . Concord Camera Corp. is principally engaged in the manufacture and sale of popularly-priced, easy-to-use, conventional and single-use 35 millimeter and Advanced Photo System cameras and 110 cartridge cameras which it manufactures and assembles in the Peoples Republic of China on an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and basis and under the trade names CONCORD(R), KEYSTONE(R), LE CLIC CLIC Centre Local d'Information et de Coordination (French) CLiC Climate and Cryosphere (World Climate Research Programme project, Norway) CLIC Compact Linear Collider CLIC Connecticut Licensing Information Center (R), APEX(R), GOLDLINE(R) and, for sales outside the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Mexico, ARGUS Argus (är`gəs) or Argos (är`gŏs, –gəs), in Greek mythology. 1 Many-eyed monster, also called Panoptes. He guarded Io after she had been changed into a heifer. (R) trade names, as well as private labels. The company sells and markets its camera products worldwide through direct sales offices in the United States, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and France, and through independent sales agents. |
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