Plasmon, a market leader for professional data archival solutions, designed its cutting-edge UDO™ (Ultra Density Optical) media to be a highly secure archival storage medium for its customers’ valuable electronic data. Part of that security solution stems from Plasmon’s use of new D Series LNP* Stat-Loy* resins from GE Advanced Materials. Used to form the shell of Plasmon’s SLMD2005 UDO media, the Lexan* resin-based LNP compounds contribute an excellent balance of impact performance and resistance to static build-up.

Plasmon’s UDO media signifies a leap forward in optical storage. Its 5.25-in. UDO technology breaks the mold for optical storage solutions, by increasing storage capacity and dramatically lowering archival storage costs. Plasmon’s selection of GE’s impact-resistant, anti-static compounds lends UDO media an added degree of security for the important data they store.

"GE Advanced Materials and, more specifically, the performance of its new LNP brand of anti-static polycarbonate (PC) compounds contributed notably to our successful development of an extremely cost-competitive and reliable, optical storage media," said Nigel Street, chief executive, Plasmon. “We are very pleased with the results.”

Like GE’s other LNP Stat-Loy compounds, the new D Series provides excellent surface resistivity performance between 1011 and 1012 ohms/sq. This quality helps reduce accumulated static charge that can cause dust to collect or plastic parts to discharge static electricity. The compounds are, therefore, an excellent consideration for applications such as high-density media, internal hard disk parts, and air duct housings.

The new Lexan polycarbonate-based D Series products are formulated using halogen-free flame-retardant technology and offer an excellent balance of mechanical properties including impact resistance, tensile strength, and flexural modulus.

“This new series of polycarbonate-based compounds both expands and enhances GE’s LNP Stat-Loy product line by offering the option of enhanced impact resistance with the excellent anti-static performance typical of traditional LNP Stat-Loy compounds,” said Tsutomu Kinoshita, Asia/Pacific product manager for Stat-Loy products, GE Advanced Materials.