News Release from: GrafTech International
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 16 August 2004

Lightweight heat spreader makes the grade

For the second consecutive year R and D Magazine has included a product from the eGraf thermal management product line in its list of the most technologically significant products of the year.

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For the second consecutive year R and D Magazine has included a product from the eGraf electronic thermal management product line in its list of the most technologically significant products of the year. This prestigious award recognises GTI's eGraf SpreaderShield product, a newly patented technology in electronics cooling. eGraf SpreaderShield products are flexible and lightweight with superior thermal management properties that uniquely spread heat throughout electronic devices.

eGraf SpreaderShield products are used in a wide range of electronic applications from notebook computers to flat panel displays, DVD cameras and cellphones.

eGraf SpreaderShield products are 30% lighter than aluminium and 80% lighter than copper, traditional heat spreader materials used in today's mobile electronics.

Craig Shular, Chief Executive Officer of GTI, commented: "We feel privileged in joining a very small and select group of organisations who have achieved this level of technological success for two consecutive years and we are very proud to accept this 2004 award in recognition of our new eGraf thermal management product".

"We are pleased with the progress this business team is making and the success it is enabling for our customers in a wide range of applications in fast growing end markets".

eGraf SpreaderShield products are being used in the Sony x505 notebook computer, the thinnest and lightest laptop sold in the marketplace today, weighing less than 1kg.

The Sony x505 is the first, latest generation laptop that does not require a heat pipe, fan or even air vents.

eGraf SpreaderShield products were critical to the successful design of this laptop.

The R and D 100 Awards were established in 1963 and provide a mark of excellence known to industry, government, and academia as proof that the selected product is one of the most innovative ideas of the year.

The criterion for the R and D 100 Award is demonstrable technological significance compared with competing products and technologies.

This means that the product should exhibit orders of magnitude of improvement over existing products.

In the past, the R and D Awards have recognised many significant products including the automated teller machine, the fax machine, the digital wristwatch, the Kodak Photo CD and HDTV.

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