Hutchinson Technology Incorporated Revenue and Competitors

Hutchinson Technology Incorporated (HTI) is a leading supplier of suspension assemblies for hard disk drives. HTI estimates that it produces a majority of all suspension assemblies sold to disk drive manufacturers and their suppliers, including recording head manufacturers, worldwide. HTI\'s suspension assemblies are manufactured with proprietary technology and processes to uniform and precise specifications that are critical to maintaining the necessary microscopic clearance between the head and disk. During 2000, HTI shipped approximately 488 million suspension assemblies of all types. HTI is a supplier to nearly all domestic and many foreign-based users of suspension assemblies, including Alps, IBM and its affiliates, Maxtor,Quantum, Read-Rite, SAE Magnetics/TDK and its affiliates, Samsung,Seagate Technology, Toshiba and Western Digital.