Park Electrochemical Announces Wider Acceptance of its N6000 Products and Successful CAF Testing for High Reliability Applications
LAKE SUCCESS, NY, March 6, 2001… Park Electrochemical Corp. (NYSE-PKE) announced that one of its most advanced series of multilayer products, the N6000 and N6000 SI™ products, have recently gained wider acceptance in digital broadband applications, which include optical routers, high speed/low loss network storage and cellular infrastructure. The N6000 series is based on proprietary resins from Asahi Kasei. N6000 SI™ is a higher frequency version of the N6000 utilizing Park/Nelco’s advanced SI™ technology.
Park also announced that in support of the growing demand for these advanced products and in response to the more exacting standards required by digital broadband applications, it has recently completed Conductive Anodic Filament (CAF) testing of its N6000 product line. CAF testing is a stringent reliability test used most frequently to evaluate high density interconnection systems for sustained performance.
Bob Forcier, Senior Vice President of OEM Marketing and Technology stated, “The N6000 and N6000 SI™ products incorporate Park/Nelco’s highest performing advanced multilayer material technologies. We believe these products provide excellent solutions to signal integrity requirements in very high layer count multilayers, backplanes and modules. We are presently supporting OC 192 and anticipate supporting OC 768 Optical Routing Protocols with both of these high speed products. Advanced optical routers require very reliable signal integrity performance operating across high layer count structures. Our recent successes in passing a major OEM’s requirement for CAF resistance and in passing other high reliability tests, including Interconnect Stress Testing (IST), confirms the suitability of the N6000 products in these high performance applications.”
Certain portions of this press release may be deemed to constitute forward looking statements that are subject to various factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from Park’s expectations. Such factors include, but are not limited to, general conditions in the electronics industry, Park’s competitive position, the status of Park’s relationship with its customers, economic conditions in international markets, the cost and availability of utilities, and the various factors set forth under the caption “Factors That May Affect Future Results” after Item 7 of Park’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 27, 2000.
Park Electrochemical Corp. is a leading global designer and producer of electronic materials used to fabricate complex multilayer printed circuit board and interconnection systems. Park specializes in advanced materials for high layer count circuit boards and high speed digital broadband telecommunications, internet and networking applications. Park’s electronic materials business operates through fully integrated business units in Asia, Europe and North America. The Company’s major manufacturing facilities are located in Singapore, England, France, Germany, New York, Arizona and California. Park’s electronic materials business operates under the “Nelco” name.