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2002, March 26
Taconic and Isola Announce Co-Manufacturing Agreement in Low Loss Materials
Taconic Advanced Dielectric Division, the world's leading manufacturer of fluoropolymer laminates, today announced the
formation of an industry alliance with Isola AG, the world's leader in base materials for electronic interconnect. Together, the
companies will develop and produce substrate materials for high-speed, digital printed circuitry applications.
The alliance between Isola and Taconic will leverage Taconic's product development core competency in the very high frequency
microwave domain and Isola's strengths in PCB fabricator technical support and worldwide manufacturing to develop and produce superior
substrate materials for high-speed digital printed circuitry applications.
Unlike the enhanced epoxy materials introduced to the marketplace over the past few years, fluoropolymer substrates offer designers a
technology platform to deliver backplane and daughter card solutions at 5 Gbps and beyond: a platform for the next decade, not just a single
design cycle.
"With the growing demand for circuitry that operates at higher speeds and with increased signal performance, the opportunities for the
material suppliers to design, develop and produce these materials is moving quickly. Isola and Taconic are joining forces to bring these
types of materials to the market faster", said Denny Ford, President, Isola Laminate Systems Corp.
"This agreement allows both companies to rapidly scale manufacturing and fabricator support for new materials including,
TacPreg™, Taconic's patent pending solution for high-speed digital applications and Isola's IS630 low loss laminate material
based on the same technology platform", commented Jim O'Keefe, Taconic Co-CEO. "This is a breakthrough in that for the
first time fluoropolymer based products will enable the manufacture of cost effective, high-layer count printed circuit boards using existing
fabrication equipment and conventional PCB processes", he added.
"Capitalizing on Isola and Taconic's unique manufacturing structure will provide fabricators and OEMs a global supply chain for
their newest circuitry designs and production for the growing high-speed market. We're anticipating volume production during the third quarter of
this year", Ford remarked.
Headquartered in Düren Germany, Isola AG is the world's leading supplier of base materials for printed circuit boards. Isola has twelve facilities
in Europe, the United States, and the Asia Pacific region; sales and distribution worldwide; and employs approximately 3,000 people. Additional
information about the company is available under www.isolaag.com.
Taconic is a privately held global manufacturer of engineered products for demanding specialty applications with facilities in Petersburgh, New
York (USA) and Mullingar, Ireland. Taconic's Advanced Dielectric Division is a leading supplier of TacLam, ORCER™ and
TacPreg™ fluoropolymer laminate materials used in microwave frequency and high-speed digital applications. Additional information
about the company is available under www.taconic-add.com.
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For more information about these new packaging materials please contact:
In Asia: Mr. Y.M. Lim at Korea Taconic Co., telephone +82-31-704 1858
In Europe: Mr. Manfred Huschka at Taconic International Ltd., Ireland; telephone: +353-44-34080
In the USA: Mr. Robert Nurmi at Taconic, NY: telephone 518-658-3202
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