Cardwave Services, Europe's leading memory duplication company, has significantly expanded it's operation.  This week has seen the simultaneous opening of the North American production facility and sales operation, and further expansion of the existing European operation based in Devizes, United Kingdom.

This expansion raises the throughput capability of Cardwave globally by in excess of 80%, and keeps the company on track to it's objectives of programming and duplicating capabilities exceeding one million units per month.

Paul Norbury, Managing Director of Cardwave Services Ltd, "We are seeing significant growth in the programming of content onto memory devices, particularly in the portable devices arena, we are a specialist company providing this service to strategic partners around the world.  It is therefore critical that we keep ahead of the game and have the capability to deliver the solutions locally and regionally, in line with our customer expectations."

Mike Harding, Commercial Director for Cardwave Services Ltd adds, "We believe the quality of product used is important, we therefore operate closely with the major flash manufacturers, moving forward  we see the importance of the information contained on the flash memory, and experience the user gains through this, as vital.  The opportunity for content providers to not just sell in this way, but market products and services in a very powerful and innovative route to market cannot be expressed enough.  We believe flash memory, combined with it's endless applications and uses, will become the dominating form factor for the storage of data and media in most commercial and consumer areas."