CMC Magnetics Acquires Verbatim Storage Media Business from Mitsubishi

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 14 June 2019, 2:16 pm

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation announced it is selling its storage media business operated by Verbatim, as well as related assets, to CMC Magnetics.

Mitsubishi Chemical Media to Produce Optical Disc Archive Cartridges

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 10 April 2018, 5:04 pm

Sony Electronics announced that Mitsubishi Chemical Media has signed a license agreement to produce Optical Disc Archive (ODA) cartridges.

Verbatim Europe Launches 100GB Blu-ray M-Disc

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 18 May 2016, 2:29 pm

Verbatim Europe announced its new M-DISC BD-R XL 100GB Blu-ray optical discs for long-term data archiving.

Millenniata and MKM/Verbatim Launch 100GB Blu-ray M-Disc

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 3 February 2015, 11:15 am

Millenniata and MKM/Verbatim announced that their new archival M-DISC BD-R XL 100GB Blu-ray optical discs will be available by the end of February 2015.

Verbatim/MKM to Market Archival Blu-ray and DVD M-DISC

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 9 September 2014, 2:10 pm

Millenniata announced that Verbatim and its parent company, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (MKM), will market, as well as jointly develop, M-DISC-branded archival Blu-ray and DVD discs.

Hie Electronics Approves Mitsubishi Enterprise Grade Blu-ray Discs

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 17 July 2014, 1:01 pm

Hie Electronics announced that it has completed robotic handling tests of Mitsubishi Kagaku Media’s Enterprise Grade Blu-ray discs in its TeraStack Solution for data storage and archiving.

Pioneer and Memory-Tech Developing 512GB Optical Discs

Posted by Hugh Bennett on 13 May 2014, 8:29 am

Pioneer and Memory-Tech announced they, with the assistance of Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, are developing a next-generation optical storage format for data archiving that teases disc capacities ranging from 256GB (single-side, eight-layer) to 1TB (double-side, twelve-layer).