Verbatim Corporation
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The Verbatim Corporation is a US company and markets storage media and flash memory products. It is a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation of Japan.
Most Verbatim DVD+R and DVD-R media uses their patented Advanced Azo Dye Technology and high-quality Mitsubishi dye.
The Verbatim name is shared by several companies.
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[edit] History
The company was founded in 1969 and it has been a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical since 1990.
Key Dates:
1969: Information Terminals, the predecessor to Verbatim, is created.
1979: Verbatim goes public; sales grow to $36 million.
1985: Eastman Kodak announces its $174 million bid for Verbatim.
1990: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation acquires Verbatim.
1992: The company buys Carlisle Memory Products.
2005: Verbatim is ranked the leading supplier of recordable CD and DVD media in the world.
[edit] Products
Computer data storage products:
- floppy disk
- magnetic tape
- MultiMediaCards
- SD cards
- CompactFlash cards
- CD-R/CD-RW
- DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-R DL
- DVD+R/DVD+RW/DVD+R DL
- DVD-RAM
- BD-R/BD-RE
- HD-DVD-R
- USB flash drives
Those products are partly produced in Verbatim/Mitsubishi's own plants in Singapore and Japan, and partly under license by Taiwanese and Indian manufacturers.
Verbatim also resells relabeled products from Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese, Malaysian and Indian factories (Pearl White DVD series in Europe, some CD-R not labeled Super Azo), including but not limited to products by Taiyo Yuden, Ritek Corporation, CMC Magnetics, Prodisc, Moser Baer, Daxon/BenQ.
[edit] Technologies
- Advanced Azo Dye Technology (patented high-developed Azo-Color-Technology)
- SERL Super Eutectic Recording Layer technology for rewritable medias (after deleting the medium it regenerates)
- TERL (Tellurium Alloy Recording Layer) technology for special Audio CD-RWs