- Fascination Blu in Singapore
- First BLULINE delivered to Singapore
Kahl am Main, July 18, 2008 – SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES (SINGULUS) installed the first BLULINE Blu-ray disc production machine for the Southeast Asian market at Axiom Technologies MFG PTE Ltd in Singapore this month.
At the inauguration ceremony “AXIOM GOES BLU� on 18 July 2008, the Singapore Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. George Yeo, was the Guest-of-Honor and along with Mr. Bernhard Goh, Managing Director of Axiom (AXIOM) they took the opportunity to praise Blu-ray technology and its advantages in the S.E.A. region.
Mr. Goh stated: “We are proud to be the pioneers for Blu-ray in our region, and will certainly promote this competitive advantage. Each adopter of this new technology will further nudge the optical business towards the 3rd generation formats and HDTV. The decision to buy a production system from SINGULUS is the right insurance for us to achieve this target.�
“With this first step, we are helping to develop the Southeast Asian Blu-ray market, and in particular to set the course for future SINGULUS business activities,� added Ms. Sylvia Hitzel, Vice-President Sales and Marketing at SINGULUS.
CORPORATE PROFILE AXIOM
AXIOM provides manufacturing and related value-added services to the CD, DVD, Blu-ray storage media industry, delivering a valuable one-stop solution, ranging from content development and design to packaging and distribution. With a firm belief in leveraging technology to meet customer's needs, AXIOM's success comes from heading the market's call for more than just the basic replication service.
Background on AXIOM
AXIOM TECHNOLOGIES MFG PTE LTD was founded in 1997 on the firm belief in leveraging technology and innovation to create true customer value and satisfaction. We have thrived by being focused on customer needs, quality and timely delivery to deliver the latest quality products to our customers. Growing from a four-man outfit to what AXIOM is today, with a staff strength in excess of 70, AXIOM is the preferred supplier to many multinational IT companies and major Home Entertainment Media companies in Australia, Japan and the US; and is widely-recognised within the industry as a technology leader in the region. AXIOM has built a reputation for professionalism, integrity and reliability though the use of stateoftheart technologies and equipment from around the world.
AXIOM goes Blu: AXIOM first to bring full range of Blu-ray solutions to the Asia-Pacific
Over the years, AXIOM has built core competencies in a wide range of value-added services in the packaged media industry to augment our manufacturing activities. This strategy has allowed us to service our customers to the highest levels and provide a one-stop shop for all our customers’ needs. With AXIOM’s recent acquisition of Blu-ray authoring and replication capabilities, we continue to remain in the fore-front of the packaged-media industry with the latest technologies and are ready to service our customers in their move into the High Definition era.
Short profile of SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES AG
SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES is the world market leader for optical disc production lines for CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, and the only manufacturer to offer the full product range: mastering, molding and replication lines. In addition to the further development of optical disc core business, diversification into the new area of solar is its principal strategic goal.
STANGL and SINGULUS will systematically expand their solar activities. STANGL is currently one of the few suppliers of wet-chemical machines for both crystalline silicon solar technology and thin-film solar technology, with growth rates in excess of 40 %. SINGULUS is set to unveil its own solar coating machine in 2008, based on its wealth of experience in the core area of optical discs. It will be able to tap into STANGL's experience and market knowledge for this move. In March 2008 SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES teamed up with Q-Cells, the most important solar cell producer worldwide, for the development of this new machine and won the company as a key customer. Together with the equipment made by STANGL, SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES will then be able to offer two important machine groups with wet-chemical and vacuum coating processes for a production line for crystalline silicon solar cells. The goal is to strengthen its global position for production equipment for crystalline solar cells over the next few years.