KEMET Wins 2009 InnoVision Award for Technology Development

GREENVILLE, S.C., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- KEMET Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: KEME), a leading manufacturer of tantalum, multilayer ceramic, solid aluminum, plastic film, paper and electrolytic capacitors, was honored on November 4, during an awards dinner ceremony at the Carolina First Center in Greenville, South Carolina, with the 2009 InnoVision Technology Award in the Technology Development category. The award was accepted on behalf of KEMET by Randy Hahn, Senior Director, Valve-Metal Technologies.

The winning project from the KEMET Tantalum Business Group was for its first-to-market 35 V Tantalum-polymer capacitor (T521 series). This product was launched earlier this year after several years of development and uses a new intrinsically conducting polymer system as the cathode. This new system allows the capacitor to operate at higher voltage than current Tantalum-polymer capacitors and has much lower equivalent series resistance (ESR) than traditional tantalum-manganese dioxide solid tantalum capacitors. This product is intended to be used in high power circuits up to 28 V wherever high power conversion efficiency is required. It has already been designed into applications in medical, telecommunications, consumer, and computer applications. One United States patent has been issued to KEMET for this technology and several other United States and foreign patent applications are in process.

"KEMET is honored to receive this prestigious award, and it is extremely gratifying for the Company. Over the last few years we have intensified our focus on becoming a leader in technology," said Dr. Philip Lessner, KEMET Chief Technology Officer. "Receiving this award is confirmation that we are making significant advancements on this goal. I'm proud of the work our team does on a daily basis and I look forward to more awards and patents from them in the future."

About KEMET

KEMET Corporation (KEME.OB) applies world-class service and quality to deliver industry-leading, high-performance capacitance solutions to its customers around the world. KEMET offers the world's most complete line of surface-mount and through-hole capacitor technologies across tantalum, ceramic, film, aluminum, electrolytic, and paper dielectrics. Additional information about KEMET can be found at http://www.kemet.com.

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