Rogers Corp. announced that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Himag Solutions Ltd., a private UK based company. Himag is a technology company that provides custom planar magnetic products. This alliance leverages Himag’s planar transformer technology and Rogers’ power distribution technology and global market presence, to bring what the companies described as unique high efficiency power electronic solutions to market.
Himag’s technology is in advanced planar transformers, which provide 99% energy efficiency versus only 90% for wire wound transformers. Himag’s planar transformers also take up about one-third the space and weight of conventional transformers.