SAN JOSE – Shocking Technologies opened its expanded production facility, unveiling a manufacturing plant for voltage switchable dielectric material.

The lab and equipment will be used to develop, simulate and produce the company’s nanocomposite Xtstatic 100 VSD material. Xstatic is embedded in PCBs or semiconductor packaging to increase a product’s protection against harmful ESD events.

The facility is capable of producing material to equip more than 200 million cellphones or other similar products a year, the firm says.

Shocking Technologies’ manufacturing line is run by a site-wide manufacturing execution system that maintains product genealogy and component traceability.

The City of San Jose and its redevelopment agency made an investment of $500,000 toward capital equipment.