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The history of OM&T B.V. goes back to that of the
history of the Optical disc technology development in
Philips. The department was in that time referred to as
Philips’ Optical Disc Technology Centre (ODTC) and acted
as an R&D centre with pilot production capacities. Its
main task was to support the Philips standardisation of
optical disc formats and as such it has played a leading
role in the development of the CD-R(W), DVD+R(W) and
BD-R/RE formats.
In 2006, the group was reorganised into a subsidiary
company of Philips, OM&T B.V.
In broadening its scope of R&D, OM&T’s ambition is to
continue as a leading development centre for
high-technology products and production processes. Our
technology roadmap starts from our expertise as
development centre for new optical disc formats. We are
fully exploiting our expertise and the business
opportunities in the optical disc market with an
emphasis on the realisation of the BD portfolio. In the
optical disc market, OM&T is respected supplier of
recordable/rewritable optical discs, specialised test
and calibration discs and Optical disc stampers to a
large number of customers. During last years, building
on the existing competencies and infrastructure, OM&T has successfully extended its development roadmap into
the area of Photovoltaics (PV). In this PV program we
are cooperating with leading partners in Europe.
In February 2007 the majority of OM&T’s shares have
been acquired by Moser Baer India, a company that has
proven skills in mass manufacturing of optical discs as
well as of PV cells and modules. We have found an
excellent fit between MBI and OM&T and in this new
situation OM&T is even more prepared to play a leading
role in the continuous innovation cycle of high tech
products and services.
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