SPD Inc. Announces Plans to Produce and Deliver SPD Film and SPD Glass Next Month.Business and Technology Editors INCHON, Korea--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 3, 2001 SPD (Serial Presence Detect) The method used by DIMM memory modules to communicate their capacity and features to the computer. Data such as manufacturer, size, speed, voltage and row and column addresses are stored in an EEPROM chip on the module. Inc. announced today that in addition to delivering suspended particle device (SPD) light-control film, it expects to begin producing SPD glass incorporating this film in January of 2002. SPD Inc.'s parent company, Hankuk Glass Industries Inc. (KSC KSC Kennedy Space Center KSC Keene State College (New Hampshire) KSC Kagoshima Space Center KSC Karlsruher Sportclub (Karlsruhe, Germany) KSC Korean Service Corps :02000.KS), is Korea's largest glass manufacturer and is a licensee of Research Frontiers Incorporated (Nasdaq: REFR REFR Rare and Exotic Feline Registry ). SPD Inc. was formed as a separate subsidiary of Hankuk Glass Industries devoted exclusively to the production and sale of SPD film and products. Over the past several months, SPD Inc. has been fine-tuning and testing its coating equipment, as well as pilot production of SPD film and end-products. The SPD film and SPD "smart" products produced in these runs was delivered to customers including InspecTech Aero Service (SPD aircraft cabin An aircraft cabin is the section of an aircraft in which passengers travel, often just called the cabin. At cruising altitudes, the surrounding atmosphere is too thin to breathe without an oxygen mask, so cabin pressurization adapts the cabin to atmospheric pressures. windows), a large international automobile manufacturer (SPD sunroofs), and others. The remainder of the film inventory is being used to fill other near-term customer orders and for internal purposes. SPD Inc. has successfully completed equipment testing and pilot production, and is now in the mass production phase, which first involves a transition to its new SPD plant in Inchon, Korea. The SPD equipment has been moved from the various pilot plant facilities for reassembly reassembly - segmentation in the Inchon factory's two "clean room" facilities. The customization of SPD Inc.'s large coater and SPD Inc.'s facility for mass production of the raw materials used by this coater have been completed, and personnel have been relocated to the Inchon factory. The approximately 30,000 square foot state-of-the-art factory compound contains three floors of space for showrooms, research and development facilities, and offices, as well as two large clean room areas for coating and laminating lam·i·nate v. lam·i·nat·ed, lam·i·nat·ing, lam·i·nates v.tr. 1. To beat or compress into a thin plate or sheet. 2. To divide into thin layers. 3. . Expansion space is also available. SPD technology uses a thin flexible film to regulate the amount of light passing through normally clear glass or plastic, and benefits users of a wide variety of everyday products such as windows, mirrors, eyewear eye·wear n. 1. Eyeglasses, goggles, or other objects worn over the eyes. 2. Fashionable eyeglasses. and flat panel displays A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time . SPD Inc. has previously announced its mission to market SPD light-control film to companies that will incorporate it into SPD-Smart(TM) end-products, and has also announced that it will offer a variety of its own end-products. Today, SPD Inc. is pleased to report that in response to market studies and end-product manufacturer requests, it will also produce and offer SPD smart glass to be used in end-products. They will supply SPD film already incorporated into flat or laminated glass Noun 1. laminated glass - glass made with plates of plastic or resin or other material between two sheets of glass to prevent shattering safety glass, shatterproof glass glass - a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure , cut to customer specifications, with electrical interface built-in and ready for operation. In January of 2002, SPD Inc. expects to be producing SPD smart glass in addition to delivering SPD film. About SPD Inc. and Hankuk Glass Industries Inc. SPD Inc. is a subsidiary of Hankuk Glass Industries Inc. which is the parent company of the Hanglas Group, which employs over 1,800 people and is Korea's largest flat glass manufacturer with 2000 sales of 639.1 billion Korean won
To learn more about SPD light-control film, SPD glass, and end-products offered by SPD, Inc., please contact Mr. Byoung Chan (B.C.) Lee, Vice President of SPD Inc., by telephone from the U.S. at 011 82 32 819 4671 or by email at bclee@spdi.co.kr. |
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