ROGERS, CT – Rogers has signed an exclusive agreement to manufacture laminates using Hitachi Chemical's prepregs and distribute them worldwide.

Under the agreement, for which financial terms, if any, were not disclosed, Rogers and Hitachi Chemical aim to expand global adoption and improve customer support of the printed circuit board materials for use in high-speed digital applications.

The new agreement enables Rogers to offer a broader variety of high performance circuit materials. The companies will also work to jointly develop new HSD PCB materials for future applications.

The deal updates a previous agreement from December 2008 under which the two companies agreed to trade products and market them under their own brand names.

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.

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