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photomask processing technology. In the same year, the production of substrate bonders was relocated from
Waterbury (USA) to the newly acquired plant in Sternenfels. Since then, coating equipment, bonders, and photomask processing equipment have been manufactured at the same plant, which has thus become a center of excellence for wet processing technology. With the acquisition of Tamarack Scientific in 2012, the company added advanced laser processing technology for microstructure transfer to its lithographic portfolio.
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coaters and device bonders. The next acquisition was in 1999 with Convac (sold by
Fairchild Semiconductor). Through the acquisition of Image Technology, USA, photomasks used for lithographic processes have supplemented the Group’s portfolio since 2001. Since the foundation of Suss Microoptics in Neuchâtel, Switzerland in 2002, the company also offers optical microlenses.
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Microtec expanded its production capacities in 2020 with a new production facility in Taiwan. In addition, another technology was added in the same year when the company acquired the inkjet printing business of solar specialist Meyer Burger,
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Since the foundation of the company GMA in 1989, which emerged from the former
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in 1963 to develop a simple photolithography device laid the foundation for the company’s later direction and was its first step into the semiconductor industry. The first order from
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Bavaria, took over the distribution of optical instruments (microscopes, cameras, and laboratory equipment) from Ernst Leitz GmbH. With increasing technical expertise, the company changed from a pure sales company with five
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