Contact Information: CONTACTS: Stablcor Incorporated Carol Burch Vice President Marketing 714.524.1180 Carol.burch@stablcor.com Graphic PLC Trevor Sanders Sales Director tsanders@graphic.plc.uk Graphic PLC Down End, Lords Meadow Industrial Estate Crediton, Devon EX17 IHN United Kingdom Tel +44 (0) 1363 774874 Fax +44 (0) 1363 772265
Stablcor Enters Into Licensing Agreement With UK-Based Graphic PLC
| Source: STABLCOR Incorporated
COSTA MESA, CA--(Marketwire - March 11, 2008) - Stablcor Incorporated, a leading provider of
technologically advanced carbon composite laminates, today announced that
it has signed a new licensing agreement with UK-based Graphic PLC, a
provider of advanced printed circuit boards (PCB) to the defense,
aerospace, medical, industrial and telecom industries across Europe, Asia
and the Americas.
"We have over 20 years of experience in the development and manufacture of
PCBs with controlled CTE and thermal management designs," said Graphic PLC
Technical Director Paul Comer. "We have been tracking the progress of
Stablcor and now is the right time to add a license for the STABLCOR
technology. It is a natural progression to replace copper invar copper and
non-woven aramid currently used in designs for thermal management, CTE
matching or rigidity improvements. We are committed to providing highly
reliable PCBs featuring a wide range of design options. Stablcor's
technology will enable us now to provide the heat management and CTE
matching previously only provided by using copper invar copper."
"We introduced our STABLCOR technology to Graphic's key personnel in their
purpose-built, 60,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility located in
Devon, England," commented Stablcor CTO Kris Vasoya. Graphic's application
engineers, sales representatives, engineering team and manufacturing staff
were provided an open forum where features, advantages and benefits of the
technology were discussed and demonstrated."
"We are pleased to have Graphic PLC, a premier PCB manufacturer, license
our STABLCOR product as we believe it to be a validation of the superiority
of our technology," noted Stablcor President Douglas J. Tullio. "Graphic
targets markets with exacting requirements for thermal management, board
rigidity and the ability for CTE matching. These requirements are
challenging and our STABLCOR product will assist Graphic in addressing
these important industry issues."
STABLCOR Technology
PCBs manufactured using STABLCOR as one or multiple cores will act as a
heat spreader, which substantially increases thermal conductivity, provides
improved rigidity without increasing the weight of the board, and decreases
temperatures in lead-free assemblies. In addition to the improved CTE and
thermal management, PCBs manufactured with Stablcor's licensed technology
exhibit the following characteristics: less than 50 percent Z-axis
expansion, when compared to boards using Thermount materials, and exhibit
no moisture absorption issues.
About Stablcor Incorporated
Stablcor is the only provider of a thermally and electrically conductive
carbon composite material which, when incorporated in printed circuit
boards and substrates, controls heat, thermal expansion and increases the
rigidity and strength of circuit boards without increasing the weight. The
patented laminate and the processes to incorporate STABLCOR® into circuit
boards and substrates provide the electronics industry a cost efficient
technology to produce smaller electronic products, while eliminating the
thermal, mechanical and reliability concerns that currently challenge the
semiconductor industry. For more information about STABLCOR, visit
www.stablcor.com.
About Graphic PLC
For nearly 40 years Graphic PLC has provided high technology printed
circuit boards to the defense, aerospace, medical, industrial and telecom
markets. Graphic manufactures a wide range of product types such as
multilayer, flexible, and flexi-rigid with features such as sequential
micro-via (staggered or stacked), controlled impedance and controlled CTE
,all fully tested to international standards and reliability criteria
agreed with customers. A wide range of materials can be used in these
technologies and the finished product is supplied around the world. Graphic
is a signatory to the SC21 program for aerospace companies and uses wide
ranging world class techniques to advance product and service quality. For
more information about Graphic PLC visit www.graphic.plc.uk.