Moser Baer ramps up output of Lightscribe CD-Rs

In the face of increasing market demand and escalating orders from its OEM
partners, Moser Baer India Ltd, manufacturer of optical storage media pro-ducts,
has announced plans to substantially increase prod-uction and shipments of
Light-scribe-enabled Recordable Compact Discs (CD-Rs). Moser Baer is currently
one of only two optical media companies in the world to be licensed by
Hewlett-Packard to manufac-ture the high-precision discs.

Lightscribe is a direct disc labeling technology that gives consumers the
ability to create labels on their disks using their CD and DVD drives. The
technology, created and patented by Hewlett-Packard, provides users a method to
create professional labeling solutions, both in graphics and text.

Ratul Puri, Executive Direc-tor of Moser Baer said, "Since we started
production of Light-Scribe-enabled media in January, we have seen a steady
ramp-up in our order book positions for this exciting new self-labeling disc.

Consequently, we are in the process of increasing capacities to meet up with
the growing demand from our OEM partners." Moser Baer has an OEM supplier
relationship with 11 of the top 12 optical media brands in the world.

The Lightscribe product manager at Moser Baer Rajesh Mattoo said,
"Demand is being driven by the worldwide introduction of Lightscribe-enabled
DVD drives. As more and more companies ship laptops and PCs with these new
drives, the number of end-consumers taking to the exciting opportunities that
this product offers is growing steadily."

"While production capacity for the new media option is being built up
sequentially-in keeping with demand growth-we are looking at an eventual output
number of several mill-ion discs per month, including, very shortly, Lightscribe
DVD discs," he added.

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