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Imation Corp. Holds Ribbon Cutting
Imation Corp., a worldwide leader in removable data storage, held a ribbon cutting ceremony August 21 to mark the opening of the company’s new Southaven distribution center. Imation’s Southaven facility is 364,000 square feet and will employ 65. The distribution center is located in IDI’s Stateline Business Park. Company officials expect the facility to be fully operational by the fourth quarter of 2006.
Imation acquired Memorex in May 2006, and the Southaven facility will consolidate former Memorex brand distribution centers in Winchester, Va.; Ontario, Calif.; and Collierville, Tenn., along with Imation’s former Kansas City, Mo. operation into one streamlined facility. The distribution center will serve as the company’s national hub for distributing its magnetic tapes, diskettes, CDs, DVDs, flash products and removable hard disk drives across its full line of brands.
Imation, then a division of 3M, developed the world’s first removable data storage product in 1952, a tape drive that used a 12-inch movie reel that held 1.4 megabytes of digital data. Imation became an independent company in 2006 and today is the only company in the world solely focused on the development, manufacture and supply of removable data storage products spanning the four pillars of magnetic, optical, flash and removable hard disk storage.
