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TO BUSINESS EDITORS:
Transfer of LTCC Business to Adamant
TOKYO, April 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Adamant Co., Ltd. (Head Office:
Tokyo; President Yoichi Shimoda, hereinafter referred as "Adamant")
have reached a transfer agreement with Panasonic Corporation
Automotive & Industrial Systems Company (hereinafter referred as
"AIS") for Panasonic LTCC business with the aim of strengthening the
competitiveness of the substrate business and new growth.
Going back three decades, LTCC was commercialized and adopted as one
miniaturization solution for packaging technology by Panasonic
Healthcare Co., Ltd. Since then it has been widely acclaimed and has
been used in various consumer and industrial products including
mobiles, computers, peripherals, base stations,
measurement instruments and medical products. While focusing on
expansion for the coming decade, Adamant was interested in
incorporating LTCC substrate business alongside their fine industrial
jewel technology that uses materials such as sapphire, zirconia,
ceramics and ruby for industrial markets.
Adamant has taken over LTCC manufacturing equipment, know-how,
intellectual property and sales rights from AIS. Adamant will
integrate this LTCC business with their current fine ceramic
technology products including ferrules, sleeves, bonding capillaries
and sapphire substrate technology (by Namiki, parent company) to
enhance innovative value-added products within Namiki group and pursue
the next generation core products in the areas of Silicon Photonics,
Semiconductors, Aerospace, Wireless Communication, Microwave, Medical
& Automotive. By focusing production overseas in a partner's factory,
Adamant sets out to develop and expand new demands in the global and
domestic market beginning in April.
About LTCC LTCC stands for Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramics. It is a
multi-layer ceramic technology, where layers of low resistance metal
are printed onto ceramic substrates to form passive components and the
layers are then stacked and fired to form a very robust finished
product.
By being able to use multiple layers, one main advantage of this
technology is that many different passive components can be fitted
into a very small area and then compounded to produce a single device.
LTCC is a low loss material. Therefore, LTCC is most suitable for high
frequency applications.
Low shrinkage tolerances, lamination and flatness means high precision
and high density mounting is possible.
Due to its high thermal conductivity, LTCC is ideal for applications
where high heat dissipation is required. Pattern minimization can be
achieved by using Direct Plating Copper. It is used in various fields
such as semiconductor packages and as circuit substrates.
Adamant Co., Ltd. Head quarters:1-16-7 Shinden, Adachi-ku, Tokyo
123-8595 Japan Established:April 26, 1957 Capital:31,500,000 yen
Employees :350 President:Yoichi Shimoda URL:www.adamant.jp/en
Adamant became an independent company from Namiki Precision Jewel Co.,
LTD in 1957. They integrated their core strengths of cutting grinding
and polishing with the most advanced technologies to evolve business
to a submicron level for ferrules and sleeves and began to gain a
significant global market share for these products. Now Adamant
supplies precision parts, optical components and MEMS products to a
wide range of industries.
For Inquiries Ueno Kenji Adamant Co., Ltd. New Business Development
Division TEL:+81-3-5390-7643 FAX:+81-3-5390-7657 E-mail
Read more news from Adamant Co.
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