São Paulo, Brazil, January 23, 2009 – Forscher, a distributor of pigment products in Brazil, has become a distributor of JDSU products. Forscher will sell JDSU Chromaflair® and SpectraFlair® pigments and glitters to manufacturers that support the leather, automotive, electronics, packaging, sports equipment and apparel markets in their respective regions. 

“With this new partnership, we will be able to offer our customers the most interesting effect products in the market,” said Harry Heise, Forscher’s director. “The JDSU SpectraFlair and ChromaFlair lines offer new styling possibilities for many industries, and provide a very sophisticated and unique quality to products. We expect a great success with these products in the Brazilian market.”

“JDSU has appointed Forscher as a distributor to better serve our customers in Brazil,” said John Book, Special Effect Pigments product line manager of the Advanced Optical Technologies business segment at JDSU. “Forscher has the market and technical expertise needed to provide superior service to JDSU customers. We are confident they will perform as an extension of our own marketing and sales team.”

JDSU ChromaFlair pigments are unique, multi-layer pigment flakes that give paints, coatings, plastics, textiles and packaging the ability to change color when viewed from different angles. JDSU SpectraFlair pigments are light diffractive colorants that generate the appearance of multiple, bright rainbow producing prisms moving over a liquid silver color. More information is available at www.jdus.com/decorative.

About Forscher

Forscher is an active company in coatings, paints, printing inks, dyeing and modification of plastic properties, cosmetics, paper and textile markets. The company offers the best in terms of organic and inorganic pigments as well as pigment preparations, dyes, additives and equipments for these industries, besides a large and complete product portfolio in order to fight against counterfeiting and piracy. As a specialized company in effect pigments, Forscher has been developing a strong work in association with the companies focused in this market. The company supplies thermo-chromic, photo-chromic, phosphorescent, fluorescent, pearlescent, metallic, interference and diffractive pigments.

More information is available at www.forscher.com.br.  

About JDSU

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU; and TSX: JDU) enables broadband and optical innovation in the communications, commercial and consumer markets. JDSU is the leading provider of communications test and measurement solutions and optical products for telecommunications service providers, cable operators, and network equipment manufacturers. JDSU is also a leading provider of innovative optical solutions for medical/environmental instrumentation, semiconductor processing, display, brand authentication, aerospace and defense, and decorative applications. More information is available at www.jdsu.com.

Contact: harry.heise@forscher.com.br – phone: +55 11 3744 1616