- Aug 1, 2005 -

Intematix Boosts Capacity for Phosphors & Nano-Materials R&D

In response to rising demand for phosphors driven by solid state
lighting and other industries, global merchant phosphor provider
Intematix Corporation, said it is to relocate its corporate facilities
to Fremont, CA, USA.

"We have experienced tremendous acceptance of our White Lightning
family of phosphors including our yellow, green and high-color
rendering phosphors to name a few. This demand has required us to
relocate our facility in order to dramatically increase our production
capacity as well as increase our R&D adding new phosphors to our
existing portfolio of offerings," says Intematix CEO, Ruediger Stroh.
Intematix reports that the move to new facilities has enabled a
substantial increase in phosphor production. The current capacity
increase represents the ability to support the solid state lighting
industry as LED production ramps into millions of devices per day. Key
segments of the solid state lighting market that have been driving
this tremendous demand at Intematix include backlighting, camera flash
and keypad products.

Recent presentations and discussions at Blue 2005, the advanced LED
conference event held in Taiwan during May, have affirmed Intematix'
strategies. "We are moving steadily closer to our goal of creating
dramatic change in the solid state lighting industry landscape by
offering an innovative merchant supply of patent-backed phosphors to
that and other key markets, including plasma television and
counterfeit detection applications. We have received numerous inquires
from Asia, Europe, Australia and the US and expect a number of key
design wins to be announced this year," adds Stroh.

Along with the phosphor production capacity increases, Intematix has
also expanded its R&D capacity in nano-materials development.
According to Adam Andersen, VP of Operations, "A key strategic impact
of our move has been a significant increase in the availability of new
capacity in our Nano Discovery Engines which target nano-luminescence,
nano-catalysis, nano-composites and nano-biomedical materials
development."