Nomai Acquires a High Capacity Floppy Disk Facility.AVRANCHES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 1997--Nomai (NOMF.PA) today announced the completion of the acquisition of RPS rps abbr. revolutions per second (Rhone Poulenc Systems) Media, a 60,000 square foot manufacturing plant situated in Albi, France. The site is well-known for its high-volume, high-quality 3 1/2 floppy manufacturing lines. Nomai plans to convert the site to manufacture removable media of much higher storage capacity than standard floppies. "It is great for Nomai to acquire a facility that has produced millions of disks in the last few years. RPS Media has the experience that we needed for high volume manufacturing using full automation," said Marc Frouin, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Nomai SA. "This will allow us to ramp up Ramp Up To increase a company's operations in anticipation of increased demand. Notes: A company might 'ramp up' operations if they just signed a contract creating substantially more demand for their product. See also: Demand, Economies of Scale quickly and to deliver the volumes requested by our customers." Today's announcement marks another milestone for Nomai. Nomai recently announced the introduction of the Nomai 100 MB Super Floppy diskette, which is fully compatible to Iomega's Zip drive. In the last six months, Nomai has introduced a 750 MB removable hard disk (storage) removable hard disk - A type of magnetic disk, or possibly magneto-optical disk which is not permanently attached to the disk drive (not a fixed disk) but which can be taken out and replaced, allowing many disks to be used in the same drive. drive, and a 680 MB CD Recordable/Rewritable compact disk drive. Nomai, headquartered in France, is a high technology company providing advanced digital data and multimedia storage solutions. Since incorporation in 1992, the company has shipped several million products, to more than 50 countries worldwide. Nomai has 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 , and distribution agreements with companies including Maxell, Memorex, Letraset, Fujifilm, BASF BASF Bar Association of San Francisco (since 1872; San Francisco, California) BASF Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (German chemical products company) BASF Builders Association of South Florida , Verbatim and Lexmark, most of whom sell Nomai products under their own brand names. Nomai has offices in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The company is listed in the French Stock Market: NOMF.PA and its web site can be found at http://www.nomai.fr . CONTACT: Imagio Howard Barokas, 206/625-0252 howard@imagio.com |
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