EMPAK Announces First 95mm x 1mm Disk Shipper Product Line to Market; Newest Member to EMPAK Product Family Designed to Give Customers the Correct Choice For 1mm Form Factor.COLORADO SPRINGS Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. , Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 1999-- EMPAK Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of disk handling solutions, today announced that it has production samples ready for the latest innovative member in its disk shipping family -- the first 95mm x 1mm thick disk shipping cassette. The newest in the familiar F10 series of EMPAK products is designed to give customers the correct choice for the 1mm form factor. "We are delighted to be the first to market with this product. This cassette is exciting because it gives disk manufacturers the correct product for the 1mm form factor. EMPAK's 95mm x 1mm thick disk shipping cassette is a collaboration of listening to our customers' needs and delivering a credible solution for handling their 1mm thick disk products," said Shawn Cheesman, EMPAK New Business Opportunities Manager. "Some of the special features unique to our 95mm x 1mm thick disk shipping cassette are the easily identifiable standard grape color scheme and the clearly embossed em·boss tr.v. em·bossed, em·boss·ing, em·boss·es 1. To mold or carve in relief: emboss a design on a coin. 2. "1mm" on the sidewalls. It will be available in several material choices to meet the needs of individual customers. The product features an exclusive `disk tightener' design that minimizes disk tilt. Additionally, the `radial contact design' at disk resting points is incorporated to reduce the risk of disk edge damage and particulation," added Cheesman. EMPAK will offer the new 1mm thick disk shipper assembly with low chloride/low outgassing Outgassing (sometimes called "Offgassing," particularly when in reference to indoor air quality) is the slow release of a gas that was trapped, frozen, absorbed or adsorbed in some material. tops and bottoms and the cassette in the following specialized polymers: -- Low chloride polycarbonate -- Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) -- Carbon powder filled polycarbonate (PC/CP) -- Stainless steel filled polycarbonate (PC/SS) To meet more specialized customer needs, the F1095 1mm thick polycarbonate A category of plastic materials used to make a myriad of products, including CDs and CD-ROMs. shipper is also available in EMPAK's patented Clean As Molded(tm) (CAM(tm)) option and One Time Use(tm) (OTU OTU Operational Training Unit OTU Operational Taxonomic Unit OTU Optical Transport Unit (IEEE) OTU One-Time Use (disposable) OTU Over to You OTU Oxygen Tolerance Unit OTU Office of Technology Utilization (tm)) program. These innovative options allow customers to utilize the cleanest products in the industry. Polycarbonate (PC) samples will also be available in mid-May and production quantities can be delivered in June. ABS, PC/CP, PC/SS PC/SS Parallel Combinatory Spread Spectrum will be available by July. The new product will make its first public debut at DISKCON(R) USA 1999 in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. The 1mm thick F1095 will be on display along with the entire line of F10 products. The new shipping cassette joins a distinguished line of disk handling products that include the One Time Use(tm) and the Clean As Molded(tm) products. For product samples or further information, interested parties should contact Dale Smith at 612/975-2005 or via e-mail at dale_d._smith@empak.com. About EMPAK Headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo., EMPAK is an ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 registered manufacturer of a wide variety of shipping and process products for the hard disk and semiconductor industries. A member of IDEMA IDEMA International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association , EMPAK is globally recognized for its Clean as Molded(tm) disk shipper. EMPAK has manufacturing facilities in Colorado, Minnesota, Malaysia and Korea. Through special alliances with distributors and other representative firms, EMPAK is proud to offer professional customer service throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. For additional information about EMPAK or any of its representatives, log on to the EMPAK home page on the World Wide Web at http://www.empak.com. |
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