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EoPlex Expands for Antenna Manufacture
May 16, 2008 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Redwood City, Calif. EoPlex Technologies disclosed $4 million additional funding to build its first full-scale production plant for the manufacture of advanced cell phone antennas. The investment brings the total for EoPlex's C-round to $12 million.
The company previously announced its Series C funding of $8 million in 2007. "As cell phones continue to expand in services, yet shrink in size, the demand has increased for small, integrated antennas." explained Arthur L. Chait, EoPlex CEO. "The industry has been shifting from metal antennas to complex ceramic-metal antennas where the dielectric properties of the ceramic provide better performance in a smaller package." Manufacturing these antennas requires the ability to combine complex ceramic and metal structures in a tiny, monolithic part, and to create features such as buried conductors, voids, and different dielectric materials in separate parts of the structure. This must be done at low cost. "All of these requirements are a perfect match for the EoPlex process," continued Chait. "We see the opportunity to supply the cell phone industry with the capability to manufacture small and very unique designs at low cost and high volume. Our board wanted to move quickly on this opportunity and, therefore, the decision was made to increase the C-round."
EoPlex is building the new facility in the space adjacent to its present location in Redwood City. Construction has begun and the facility is expected to be ISO9001-certified and in production by Q'04 2008.
For more information, visit www.eoplex.com.