Micron Custom Manufacturing Services, Inc. Announces Iso 9001 Certification Of North Carolina Facility

Business Wire, July 24, 1996

BOISE, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 1996--Micron Custom Manufacturing Services(tm), Inc., today announced that its North Carolina assembly facility has received certification to ISO 9001. This certification covers board-level design, engineering and manufacturing services of printed circuit board and system-level assemblies at Micron Custom Manufacturing Services facility in Durham, North Carolina. The ISO 9001 Certificate has been awarded for Micron's quality system by KEMA Registered Quality, Inc. Micron's Boise, Idaho facility has been ISO 9001 certified since January 1994.

ISO 9001 is the most comprehensive level of certification in the internationally recognized ISO 9000 family of specifications for quality assurance management systems. ISO 9000 gives customers and suppliers a single set of guidelines that are accepted worldwide and that can be followed to achieve a definable level of quality. This certification implies that a company's systems for accepting orders, reviewing customers specifications, manufacturing and testing products, and delivering those products to its customers are controlled and should produce consistent results. "We are proud to have achieved certification to the ISO 9001 quality standard in Durham, North Carolina within one year of opening this facility," said Richard Latta, Durham site manager for Micron Custom Manufacturing Services, Inc. "This achievement reaffirms the quality of the processes and systems used at Micron CMS in providing global contract manufacturing services to our customers."

Micron Custom Manufacturing Services, Inc., is a wholly owned subsidiary of Micron Electronics, Inc. Micron Electronics, Inc. manufactures electronic products for a wide range of computing and digital applications. The Company develops, markets, manufactures and supports PC systems for consumer, business and government use, provides contract manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers, and maintains a component recovery operation. The Company is approximately 79 percent owned by Micron Technology, Inc. Micron Electronics, Inc. common stock trades on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the symbol MUEI. Product information is available by calling 800/515-9197 or via the Company's home page on the internet at http://www.mei.micron.com.

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