Pyral SAS is a manufacturer of
magnetic recording
Magnetic storage or magnetic recording is the storage of data on a magnetized medium. Magnetic storage uses different patterns of magnetisation in a magnetizable material to store data and is a form of non-volatile memory. The information is ac ...
media products, based in
Avranches, France. As of 2015, it is a subsidiary of
Mulann, a French company in the smartcard and ticketing industry.
In 1934, Pyral created a new type of
transcription disc
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. Their innovation was to coat the
aluminum disc with a layer of
lacquer. These discs came to be known as lacquers or
acetates.
As of 2007, The company's primary product is
perforated magnetic tape, used to record sound for movie productions. They also produce magnetic inks and slurries used in the production of
magnetic stripe card
The term digital card can refer to a physical item, such as a memory card on a camera, or, increasingly since 2017, to the digital content hosted
as a virtual card or cloud card, as a digital virtual representation of a physical card. They share ...
s.
Corporate history
* Pyral made the originals blank disks for the NASA Voyager spacecraft.
* Pyral was originally based in
Créteil
Créteil () is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Créteil is the ''préfecture'' (capital) of the Val-de-Marne department as well as the seat of the Arrondissement of Crà ...
, France, but moved to the Avranches location in 1985.
* Prior to 2004, it was part of
EMTEC,
BASF
BASF SE () is a German multinational chemical company and the largest chemical producer in the world. Its headquarters is located in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
The BASF Group comprises subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than 80 countries ...
, and
Rhône-Poulenc
Rhône-Poulenc () was a French chemical and pharmaceutical company founded in 1928. In 1999 it merged with Hoechst AG to form Aventis. As of 2015, the pharmaceutical operations of Rhône-Poulenc are part of Sanofi and the chemicals divisions a ...
.
* From 2004 until the acquisition by Mulann, it was an independent company.
* In 2012, Pyral acquired
RMGI
Recording Media Group International B.V., sometimes also named as Recordable Media Group International (also known as RMGi) was a Dutch manufacturer of magnetic tape products based in Oosterhout. This plant was initially built by Philips in 1968, ...
, a maker of analog tape used for sound recording.
* In 2015, after financial difficulties
À Avranches, la société Pyral connaît des difficultés
integrating RMGI, Pyral was acquired by Mulann.
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Manufacturing companies of France
French brands
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