KEMET Expands Its Tantalum Military Capacitor Series to Meet the Most Stringent Testing Standards

GREENVILLE, S.C., June 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- KEMET Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: KEME - News), a leading manufacturer of tantalum, multilayer ceramic, solid aluminum, plastic film, paper and electrolytic capacitors, today announced an expansion of their CWR 09, 11, 19, and 29 Series of tantalum capacitors to fully meet the requirements of MIL-PRF-55365 T-level testing. KEMET'S CWR Series is designed for use by military/aerospace customers in high reliability applications. These capacitors already meet the standard requirements of MIL-PRF-55365, including surge current options, Weibull grading, and termination options that include gold plating, hot solder dip, solder fused, and solder plating.
"KEMET has expanded its CWR product lines to fully meet the requirements of MIL-PRF-55365 T-level testing because this enhancement is important to our military and aerospace customers," stated Ed Jones, Product Manager-Specialty Products. "This expanded testing demonstrates KEMET's commitment to offering our customers the highest quality and reliability capacitors available," continued Jones.
KEMET is now on the Qualified Products List (QPL) for all options of styles CWR 09, 11, 19, and 29 specified in MIL-PRF-55365 which will provide our customers with "one stop" shopping to cover all their demand for this category of product. KEMET remains the capacitor supplier with the largest number of QPL products in the world.
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KEMET Corporation (KEME.OB) applies world-class service and quality to deliver industry-leading, high-performance capacitance solutions to its customers around the world. KEMET 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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