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Kapsch Components win CERN CMS-AWARD 2007: High honour for local hardware manufacturer from European Organization for Nuclear Research. 

CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the biggest particle physics laboratory in the world.  This laboratory is home for research by leading physicists, studying how matter comes into being and the forces which hold it together. CERN is also building the world’s largest particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider), and will be making this available to leading scientists.  Demands such as these plainly also need materials, service providers, and suppliers who can meet the highest standards possible.  Each year, CERN honours selected supplier companies for their exceptional services with the CMS AWARD.  This distinction, one of the most highly sought after throughout Europe in the sectors concerned, was secured this year by Austrian hardware manufacturers Kapsch Components.
 

“We are particularly pleased about the CMS AWARD 2007.  Kapsch Components has received this in appreciation for the outstanding quality of its printed circuit boards and its excellent co-operation with the units responsible at CERN.  The honour is confirmation once again of the enormous precision and high quality demands which we have met for many years with a whole range of different products”, says Ingolf Planer, Managing Director of Kapsch Components AG.

 

Kapsch Components has been a CERN supplier for about two and a half years.  The company provides parts for the new particle accelerator, the LHC (Large Hadron Collider).  This accelerator, the largest in the world at 27 kilometres in length, is currently being used for five different experiments (ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, LHCb, TOTEM).  Kapsch Components have already been able to produce and supply more than 27,000 of the units known as optohybrids. Optohybrids are small printed circuit boards with 1 to 6 laser diodes, including fibre cables. They are fitted out and tested at Kapsch Components, and the laser diodes are attached adhesively and bonded.  All optohybrids from Kapsch Components are also function tested, which allows Kapsch Components to guarantee the extremely high quality required for the CMS Tracker and subsequently for other scientific work within CERN.  The CMS experiment consists of 18 modules with a diameter of up to15 metres.  The CMS Tracker was constructed in a clean room and has a diameter of about 3.5 metres.  It is this module which is actually closest to the experiment.

 

More information about CERN and the CMS experiment at: http://public.web.cern.ch/ and http://cmsinfo.cern.ch/outreach/CMSdetectorinfo/CMSdetectorinfo.html

 

Kapsch Components AG, as a subsidiary of Kapsch TrafficCom AG has been engaged for years in the IT manufacturing sector with the greatest success.  The company is a customer-oriented hardware manufacturer, and supplies top-quality electronics for the most widely differing products with the highest of demands for precision and quality.  In this context, Kapsch Components provides all the process stages:  from the design, to production, to the logistics for electronic hardware. 

The product portfolio extends from communications systems for language and data to road transport control systems.  As customer-oriented hardware manufacturers, the company can point to excellent references from customers involved with component groups and modules up to full systems providers.  The focus is always on quality; and with a quality management system certified to ÖNORM (Austrian Standard) EN ISO 9001:2000 and a special quality data assessment procedure, the quality guarantee can be assured right down to the smallest detail.

 


For further information please contact:

Brigitte Herdlicka
Public Relations & Sponsoring
Kapsch Group
Am Europlatz 2, 1120 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 50 811 1710
E-Mail: brigitte.herdlicka@kapsch.net