The agreement enables the companies the ability to provide customers with a wider range of products, faster delivery and enhanced technical support to meet growing material demand driven by HSD applications.
This agreement evolved from a previous deal established in 2008 between the two companies to trade products and market them under their own brand names for wider product lineup and sales expansion.
Under the new deal, Rogers is granted exclusive rights to manufacture laminates using prepregs supplied by Hitachi Chemical, and to exclusively distribute these HSD PCB products to customers other than those reserved by Hitachi Chemical.
The companies will also work to jointly develop new HSD PCB materials for future applications.
The initial focus of this collaboration is to expand the global adoption of Hitachi Chemical’s mid-loss halogen-free HSD PCB materials, MCL-HE-679G, concurrently offered to the HSD market by Rogers under the THETA circuit materials co-brand.
Rogers will also work on expanding the global market adoption of Hitachi Chemical’s low-transmission loss HSD PCB materials, MCL-FX-2 laminate and GFA-2 prepregs.
