Pyral SAS is a manufacturer of magnetic recording media products, based in

Avranches Avranches (; nrf, Avraunches) is a commune in the Manche department, and the region of Normandy, northwestern France. It is a subprefecture of the department. The inhabitants are called ''Avranchinais''. History By the end of the Roman period, t ...

, 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. Their innovation was to coat the aluminum disc with a layer of

lacquer Lacquer is a type of hard and usually shiny coating or finish applied to materials such as wood or metal. It is most often made from resin extracted from trees and waxes and has been in use since antiquity. Asian lacquerware, which may be ca ...

. These discs came to be known as lacquers or

acetates An acetate is a salt formed by the combination of acetic acid with a base (e.g. alkaline, earthy, metallic, nonmetallic or radical base). "Acetate" also describes the conjugate base or ion (specifically, the negatively charged ion called an a ...

. As of 2007, The company's primary product is

perforated A perforation is a small hole in a thin material or web. There is usually more than one perforation in an organized fashion, where all of the holes collectively are called a ''perforation''. The process of creating perforations is called perfor ...

magnetic tape Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic storage made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film. It was developed in Germany in 1928, based on the earlier magnetic wire recording from Denmark. Devices that use magne ...

, used to record sound for movie productions. They also produce magnetic inks and slurries used in the production of magnetic stripe cards.

Corporate history

* Pyral made the originals blank disks for the NASA Voyager spacecraft. * Pyral was originally based in Créteil, France, but moved to the Avranches location in 1985. * Prior to 2004, it was part of

EMTEC EMTEC is part of the Dexxon Group headquartered in Gennevilliers, France, and markets consumer computer data storage products and other computer related consumables. Dexxon Group's North American subsidiary, Dexxon Digital Storage Inc. is locat ...

, BASF, and Rhône-Poulenc. * From 2004 until the acquisition by Mulann, it was an independent company. * In 2012, Pyral acquired RMGI, a maker of analog tape used for sound recording. * In 2015, after financial difficultiesÀ Avranches, la société Pyral connaît des difficultés
integrating RMGI, Pyral was acquired by Mulann.

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