KEMET Announces Non-Magnetic Capability for Tantalum Surface Mount Capacitors

GREENVILLE, S.C., Aug. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- KEMET Corporation (NYSE: KEM), a leading manufacturer of tantalum, ceramic, aluminum, film, paper and electrolytic capacitors, today announced  the release of a non-magnetic capability for tantalum surface mount capacitors. This option is ideal for applications with known sensitivity to the effects of magnetism in the industrial, medical, military and aerospace markets.

“KEMET’s non-magnetic capability was developed in response to a growing demand for products that exhibit extremely low magnetic permeability,” said Stanley Garrett, KEMET Technical Product Manager. “With this option, KEMET is able to achieve mu values, a measure of permeability, as low as 1.00001 mu on many MnO2 or Polymer tantalum surface mount capacitor series.”

Applications such as sonobuoys, digital compasses, gyroscopes and medical imaging equipment can all benefit from the new non-magnetic option. The non-magnetic capability can be specified by adding the appropriate lead material code to existing KEMET part numbers. Please refer to the ordering information for this code in the desired tantalum surface mount series.

This solution will be complemented by a new ceramic series of surface mount non-magnetic products to be released later this year.  

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KEMET's common stock is listed on the NYSE under the symbol "KEM." At the Investor Relations section of our web site at http://www.KEMET.com/IR, users may subscribe to KEMET news releases and find additional information about our Company. KEMET applies world class service and quality to deliver industry leading, high performance capacitance solutions to its customers around the world and offers the world's most complete line of surface mount and through-hole capacitor technologies across tantalum, ceramic, film, aluminum, electrolytic, and paper dielectrics. Additional information about KEMET can be found at http://www.kemet.com.

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