EPCOS AG - capacitors, ceramic capacitors, film capacitors

Products

Environmental protection

EPCOS publishes China RoHS information

EPCOS now offers its customers an online service to help them comply with the requirements of China’s new law on hazardous substances in electronic products.

Design tools

Development made easier

New tools are now available for designers: the AlCap design tool for scaling capacitor banks, Version 4.0 of the ferrite tool, and DC bias curves for various ceramic capacitors.

Applications

Reference design for switch-mode power supplies

Blackout-free set-top boxes

Brazil’s leading manufacturer of set-top boxes, Century do Brasil, is using superior new switch-mode power supplies. The reference design of the relevant circuit comes from ST Microelectronics and EPCOS.

Company

Q1 2007

Sales and earnings up significantly year on year

New orders: EUR 368 million, up 10 percent year on year, up 9 percent sequentially
Sales: EUR 334 million, up 10 percent year on year, down 4 percent sequentially
EBIT: plus EUR 17 million (Q1 2006: plus EUR 3 million; Q4 2006: plus EUR 17 million)

Interview with the heads of sales

“We have a lot of new moves planned!”

Since October 2006 EPCOS has a new sales managment team. Werner Rogall and Joachim Thiele are setting their sights on boosting the company’s core business, expanding reference design activities, and offering more service to customers.