Here's a press release I got thru the pro-audio internet grapevine:

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> EMTEC-Quality AUDIO TAPE
> NOW AVAILABLE !!!
>
> RMG International announces the availability of
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> EMTEC-Quality audio pancake tape
>
> EMTEC type Max. playing time in CC
> FERRO PLUS C-60 & C-100 (C-130, C-180)
> FERRO C-60 & C-110
> FLX C-60 & C-115
> Sample quantities will be available at the end of February/beginning
> of March 2005.
> Production quantities is scheduled for April 2005.
>
>
> EMTEC-Quality audio studio tape
>
> EMTEC type Quantegy equivalent type
> SM 911 456 Grand Master
> LPR 35 457
> SM 900 499 - Grand Master Gold Studio
> GP 9 - Grand Master Platinum Studio
> SM 468 478
> PER 368 -
> PER 528 -
> PM97x series 6xx series
> VM 95x series 70x, 8206 series
> ADAT Master
> formatted & blank ADAT audio
> DTRS Master
> formatted & blank DA 8
> Samples will be available in May 2005.
> Continuous supply starts in June 2005.
>
>
> Recordable Media Group International B.V., Oosterhout, The Netherlands
> has been accumulating 37 years of non-interrupted experience on
> magnetic tape manufacturing. With their highly skilled and experienced
> personnel and management, RMG International is fully dedicated to
> magnetic tape. A slim organisational structure enables low overhead.
> When EMTEC closed down, RMG International acquired the EMTEC
> production and quality assurance equipment necessary to convert &
> complete the Oosterhout production lines to the EMTEC standards for
> audio tape production.
>
> RMG International has the EMTEC
> ? production know how
> ? formulations and
> ? patents.
>
> Former EMTEC key personnel is assisting in Oosterhout in order to
> maintain the EMTEC standards.
> Following the installation of the EMTEC equipment and positive results
> of comprehensive studies on availability of the necessary raw
> materials, RMG International started prototype coating for audio
> pancake tape and is now preparing for studio tape.
>
> RMG International, brief History
> 1968 Magnetic tape production for open reel and cassette tape started in
> RMG International Oosterhout plant when it was a Philips division.
> 1981 Joint Venture Philips-Dupont, PD Magnetics B.V., on magnetic tape
> production,
> brand name PDM. 1´2² Video tape for Video 2000 and VHS, 3480/90 data
> cartridges for
> IBM tape storage systems.
> 1991 Installation of state of the art, new plant.
> 1993 SK, Germany, takes over the Oosterhout plant and renames into MPO
> B.V.
> (Magnetic Products Oosterhout B.V.).
> 1998 New, state of the art, coating line goes into operation.
> 2004 April, renamed to Recordable Media Group International B.V..
> 2004 November, acquisition of assets and know how for the production
> of audio pancakes
> for duplication and blank loading and for audio studio tape from
> EMTEC Munich plant.
>
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It'll be cool if they can pull it off.




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Pat

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