CMC Magnetics announced that it has signed a license agreement with Taiyo Yuden to use the company’s practical knowledge, patents, media IDs and trademarks related to writable CD and DVD discs.

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Unedited press release follows:

THE TWO MAJOR WORLD LEADING, TAIYO YUDEN AND CMC REACHED LICENSE AGREEMENT CMC PENETRATES INTO HIGH-QUALITY OPTICAL DISC MARKET

2015-09-21 — Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd., a Japanese leading optical disc manufacturer, will license CMC Magnetics Corporation their technology knowhow, patents, Media IDs, and trademarks related with their high value-added products of CD-R, DVD-R, and DVD+R. On September 21st, 2015, the companies have signed the license agreement on this project for high-quality optical discs.

Taiyo Yuden, known as an inventor of CD-R, is an advanced manufacturer focusing on the professional market with their high-quality and high-reliability products throughout the optical disc market.

CMC will enhance the technologies of their high-quality optical discs for professional use with Taiyo Yuden’s media IDs and the specialized technologies such as their manufacturing process and quality control knowhow, and improve the CMC’s high-quality disc products across the board featuring stable high-speed recording, high reliability, high compatibilities with optical recording drives and variety of high-quility printability. And CMC will seek the top status of the high-quality disc products with the aim of supplying high-performance and high-reliability products and the strategy in pursuit of high qualities instead of volumes.

This agreement, CMC comments, will help the company become a market leader. The CMC’s current plan is to launch the new product lines at the end of 2015. And will the strategy for the high value-added products, CMC intends to occupy the most advantageous position by further expanding the distances ahead of its competitors and winning the frontier markets.