CorActive Secures INO Specialty Fiber Products

Quebec City, Quebec — CorActive, an independent manufacturer of advanced specialty optical fiber products, is pleased to announce that it has entered into an exclusive worldwide sales agreement with INO (National Optics Institute), a Canadian center of Optics and Photonics expertise. This move reiterates CorActive's focus on its core competency – optical fiber manufacturing. In this day of component suppliers diversifying into their customers' end product markets, CorActive has chosen to expand its optical fiber offerings to best support its current and future customers.

This agreement will see CorActive responsible for sales and marketing of all INO developed specialty optical fiber products. INO products include High Attenuation (HAF), UV Sensitive and Rare-earth/Germanium doped Double and Single clad fibers. Combined with CorActive's advanced mid-IR, Double Clad, Erbium doped, attenuating and UVS optical fiber products ensures the broadest, most advanced set of fiber products to the benefit of all CorActive and INO customers. The consolidated sales volume enables CorActive to become the world market leader in several specialty optical fiber markets.

CorActive and INO will leverage their pooled fiber development and manufacturing resources to further expand the diverse product portfolio to ensure that maximum customer needs are fulfilled. This agreement underlines CorActive's intent to focus on optical fiber manufacturing to grow its business and not to expand into its customers' end product markets.

SOURCE: CorActive