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CD-R production in 2.7 s cycle time with the STREAMLINE CD-R production system!
March 19, 2002

The SINGULUS CD-R production system STREAMLINE is now available with a cycle time of <2.7 s! The reliable and cost effective CD-R line of SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES has thus reached even higher productivity.

A stringent layout, the extremely low power consumption and the precise low volume dye dosing system are the main reasons for the low production costs our customers appreciate in a competitive market.

The highly efficient disc transport system and the proven SKYLINE as finishing module are only two of the multiple benefits that count for high reliability.

Typical dye and solvent dosing volumes are in the order of 0.1 ml per disc. Refill of dye solution and solvent as well as many maintenance operations are possible without production stop. The SMART CATHODE allows to sputter 86,000 discs per target with 55 nm thick Silver layers at only +/- 5 % un-uniformity.

The low power consumption (only appr. 80 kW incl. climate unit, moulding and PC drying) even leads to less infrastructure investment.

High reliability, low costs and a high process stability enable state of the art CD-R manufacturing and result in the lowest production costs per disc and thus in low costs of ownership.

All hardware and controls of the redesigned STREAMLINE CD-R replication system are ready to be upgraded for DVD-R production.