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Belton Technology Group Won Seagate Technology’s Outstanding Supplier Awards for 2005 .
August 31, 2005


Belton Technology Group, a leading manufacturer of Arm Coil Assembly and Hook-up, won Seagate Technology’s Outstanding Supplier in the Mechanical Components category this year.

Seagate Technology, the world's leading hard drive company, today announced the winners of its Outstanding Supplier Awards for 2005. The awards are presented to those suppliers delivering consistently high performance in the areas of Quality, Technology Availability, Delivery, Flexibility and Cost Management. Seagate unveiled the winners at its 5th Annual Suppliers Day conference in Singapore.

Belton, in addition to delivering on aggressive volume requirements, consistently outperformed its peers to meet Seagate's quality, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing and technology metrics.


"Our mantra for our suppliers is 'Drive Quality,'" said Karl Chicca, Seagate senior vice president of Global Materials. "The importance of reliable storage continues to grow within traditional and new markets, like consumer electronics, and our suppliers must not only provide components that meet our stringent requirements, but must continue to raise the bar on quality.


"Much of Seagate's success in fiscal year 2005 can be credited to the quality, technology, delivery and flexibility of our supply base. We continued to improve our industry-leading supply chain over the last year and received tremendous support from our suppliers to meet our customer demand. It was no small feat and I thank them for their hard work and contribution."

About Belton
Belton Technology Group is a leader in Hard Disk Drive actuator assembly manufacturer, and a full turnkey contract manufacturer of precision machined components, precision metal stamping components, plastics injection molded parts, magnetic coil assemblies, flexible and rigid printed circuit boards and SMT flip chip assemblies. Belton is committed to provide total customer satisfaction and deliver solution with the highest value to meet customers’ goals. For more information, please visit http://www.beltontechnology.com/

About Seagate
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, and Consumer Electronics applications. Seagate's business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, and to be the low cost producer in all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at http://www.seagate.com/

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