Partnership with Alfred Kochen Helps JDSU Expand Business and Improve Service
Milpitas, Calif., May 10, 2011 -- Alfred Kochen GmbH & Co. KG, has been named as an agent for JDSU ChromaFlair® and SpectraFlair® pigments in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Belgium. Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Kochen will promote to manufacturers that support automotive, electronics, packaging, sporting goods, household appliance and apparel markets.
“We are pleased to have been appointed the agent for JDSU effect pigments in Germany and surrounding countries,” said Ralf Angermeyer, Managing Director. “JDSU products offer our customers unique options for advanced color design and fit well with our current lines of business.”
“JDSU has appointed Alfred Kochen as an agent to better serve our customers,” said John Book, Custom Color Solutions product manager for the AOT business segment at JDSU. “The Kochen team has the market, technical and customer service expertise necessary to provide excellent support to JDSU customers. They will serve as an extension of our marketing and sales teams and will be instrumental in helping us introduce our newest member of the SpectraFlair family, Bright Silver HSA, to the market. We expect Bright Silver HSA will be particularly popular with the automotive top coat and molded plastics market segments.”
JDSU ChromaFlair pigments are unique, multi-layer pigments that enable paints, coatings, plastics, textiles and packaging the ability to change color when viewed from different angles. JDSU SpectraFlair pigments are light diffractive colorants that generate the appearance of multiple, bright rainbow producing prisms moving over a liquid silver color. More information is available at
www.jdsu.com/decorative.
About Alfred Kochen GmbH & Co. KGAlfred Kochen supplies and advises industrial end consumers in the areas of printing inks, paints and coatings, industrial lubricants and greases, adhesives and waxes. Their worldwide network of suppliers as well coupled with their long-term cooperation with quality-conscious manufacturers enable the company to provide customers with high quality raw materials at competitive prices. The company collaborates with more than 35 different suppliers, for 15 of which we have distributor and agency agreements. More information is available at
http://www.alfredkochen.de.
About JDSU JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU; and TSX: JDU) innovates and markets diverse technologies that enhance the way people experience the world every day. We enable fast, high-quality communications, secure financial transactions, reliable consumer electronics, green energy, differentiated brands and a host of other solutions. We provide these solutions through three business segments: Communications Test and Measurement, Communications and Commercial Optical Products, and Advanced Optical Technologies. To learn more about JDSU, please visit
www.jdsu.com and
www.jdsu.tv and follow us on twitter at twitter.com/jdsu.