Ladies and Gentlemen,

Due to increasing problems with electrostatic discharges caused by "highly static" packing material, like plastic bags/ plastic foil or styrofoam/polystyrene we need to optimise and modify the whole packaging and transport rules for our suppliers.

Explanation: ESD (electrostatic discharge / electrostatic sensitive components)

Static electricity is an inactive/latent electrical charge which is caused by friction and/or joining and separation from non conducting materials. Voltages up to 30.000 V can occur. (Everyone knows this effect from an electric shock at a door latch or at the car door).

If there are discharges through/along sensitive electronic parts (ICs, Semiconductors, PCBs, …) these parts can be damaged or destroyed already at Voltages around 30 V. We don't have the possibility for a 100% check in inspection, so we have to optimise the whole supply chain.

Activity for our suppliers:

For us it's important that in the future all our suppliers only use ESD confirm packaging material for all goods. These materials have to be STATIC-DISSIPATIVE. (Old term: antistatic packaging)
A conductive or shielding packing is only needed in special cases which would be defined for each product/ product group by our development and purchasing department.

For detailed questions please contact your local packaging supplier.

Best Regards,
KATHREIN-Austria Ges.m.b.H



signed
Ottmar Sappl
Plant Manager

please return until Feb. 29th 2008

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We are service provider and/or supplier of expendables/consumable materials, machines, or other material which is not for serial production. Therefore we are not concerned from this actions/measures.

Our opinion is that the supplied packing material is already according to the new conditions/rules from KATHREIN-Austria.

We don't have any problems to change the packaging according to the new rules and we have the possibility to change it within the next deliveries.

We have problems to change the packaging according to the new rules. Please contact our responsible person to discuss our possibilities.


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