Kemet Awarded Certificates of Registration to the Aerospace Quality Standard AS9100
Greenville, South Carolina (October 1, 2008) - KEMET Corporation today announced that their Tantalum and Ceramics manufacturing operations have been awarded Certificates of Registration to the Aerospace Quality Standard AS9100. Registration is rapidly becoming a prerequisite for aerospace customers and the certificate will reduce the need for numerous customer audits.
"KEMET is diligently focused on both product quality and customer service,"
stated Don Aldworth, KEMET's Vice President of Quality. "These certifications clearly demonstrate that we are putting our resources into areas of our operation that are important to our customers and will make doing business with KEMET even easier for all customers serving the Aerospace industry," continued Aldworth.
AS9100 is a set of requirements for quality management systems that include all ISO 9001:2000 requirements expanded to address international aerospace requirements approved by major aerospace companies around the world. Registration is reserved for companies committed to providing excellent customer service, continual improvement, and outstanding product quality.
KEMET Corporation (KEM) applies world-class service and quality to deliver industry-leading, high-performance capacitance solutions to its customers around the world. KEMET offers the world's most complete line of surface-mount and through-hole capacitor technologies across tantalum, ceramic, film, aluminum, electrolytic, and paper dielectrics. KEMET's common stock is listed on The New York Stock Exchange under the symbol KEM.
Additional information about KEMET can be found at www.kemet.com.
Contact: Dean W. Dimke
Director of Corporate and
Investor Communications
954-766-2806
deandimke@kemet.com
