We were delighted to hold the 12th NMI Annual Conference on the 27th July 2022, at the award-winning Ramside Hall Hotel Golf & Spa, Durham, UK.
The event was well attended by over 240 guests, 19 speakers and a well attended pre-event BBQ.
Established over 25 years ago to support semiconductor manufacturing companies and suppliers, the NMI continues to grow in numbers. We are still one of the longest standing organisations representing the semiconductor industry in the UK.
Following the challenging two years we have all faced, as an industry we have been resilient while navigating and adapting to a new way of thinking and working. We have improved products and services and developed new technologies to cope with ever increasing demands while addressing societal challenges to maintain and create advanced and sustainable economies.
At our conference you will hear from industry leaders on the changes and improvements they have implemented over this period to enable sustainability and growth within their organisation.
There will also be a networking opportunity at the hotel on the evening of the 26th July, giving you the chance to connect and chat prior to conference day.
We do hope you can join us and very much look forward to seeing you all again in person.
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Meet our Speakers & Panel Guests
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Dr Bernhard Kneer, Head of Product Systems Engineering, Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
Dr Bernhard Kneer, Head of Product Systems Engineering, Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH
Dr. Bernhard Kneer is the Head of Product Systems Engineering at Carl Zeiss SMT GmbH. He received his PhD in Physics from the University of Ulm in 1999 in the field of quantum optics. He started at Carl Zeiss in the Optical Design Department of the Lithography Optics Division and rotated to the Systems Engineering Department in 2004. He was the Lead Systems Engineer of the Starlith® 1700i from 2003 until 2008. Afterwards he was the Lead Systems Engineer of the High-NA EUV lithography optics until 2018.
Gerry Thurgood, CEO, Tetreon
Gerry’s career spans over 40 years in the Semiconductor sector. Starting his career in equipment design engineering for semiconductor equipment, he has an extensive knowledge within both the Wafer fab environment and the Semiconductor production equipment. His wealth of experience comes from working for Global Blue chip equipment companies across the world, including Tetreon, Tokyo Electron Japan, Silicon Valley Group, Airco Temescal and Thermco Products all involved in the design and manufacturing of semiconductor equipment for the Diffusion, Epitaxy, Metalisation and Test sectors.
During his career, Gerry held several Senior Board roles, including at Tokyo Electron where in 1993, he worked with the board in Japan, establishing the international presence for the company in both the USA and Europe, achieving globalisation of Tokyo Electron Group.
Upon the completion of his work in Japan, Gerry returned to the UK and established the Tetreon Technologies group of companies.
The Tetreon group includes Thermco Systems manufacturing leading edge fully automated Diffusion furnaces for oxidation and LPCVD systems, Wet Chemical cleaning, Etching systems and High Volume Epitaxial reactor systems made by CSD epitaxy Inc .
Today, alongside his work as CEO, for Tetreon, Gerry is Chairman for QuartzTec UK and a Non-executive director of the NMI, where he works with key stakeholders TechWorks and the NMI team, driving the voice of the semiconductor Industry.
Jillian Hughes, Director, NMI
Jillian has worked in the Semiconductor Industry serving apprenticeship at National Semiconductor moving to Seagate Microelectronics, Motorola and Freescale . Working within the Photolithography Department.
Daniel Picado, Semiconductors Director and Plant Manager, Bourns Inc
Daniel holds the position of Semiconductors Director and Plant Manager at Bourns Inc. He is a senior Leader with over 20 years of experience in semiconductor manufacturing at world class facilities. Daniel spent more than 15 years at Intel Corporation before joining Bourns 4 and a half years ago.
Team discussion, Diodes Inc
The team:
Dr Victoria Roberts – Yield Engineering Group Leader, Victoria has 20+ industry experience starting as a process engineer to current role, responsible for overall silicon conversion. Primary drivers originated from assembly quality forums and metrics to internal site performance. Has been in current leadership role for 18 months, has a team of six sigma engineers and responsible for the internal strategy and improvement plans.
Mr Dave Butler – Process Engineering Manager, Dave also has 20+ years of industry experience.
Mr David Ogden – Production Manager, David also has 20+ years of industry experience.
Jonathan Kelly, Staff Engineer, Analog Devices
Jonathan Kelly joined Analog Devices International in 1982 as a Production Operator. Over the course of his career he has progressed to the position of Staff Engineer, Manufacturing & Operations.
Jonathan holds a CPIM and a degree in Business Management from the University of Limerick, he is also a Shingo Alumni since 2019.
Jonathan guided Analog Devices International to the Silver Medallion in 2019. ADI became the first Semiconductor Company in world to achieve this accreditation.
Jonathan has shared his knowledge extensively and is an advocate of using digital means and tools to further the application of the Shingo Principles, notably utilizing Pulse survey tools and CI project tracking tools.
Jonathan’s primary focus is exceeding both internal and external Customer expectations, by solving problems and seeking perfection in all we do.
Ken Williamson, Chief Operating Officer, Pragmatic
Ken has more than 40 years experience within the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industries. He brings with him a profound knowledge across all aspects of high-tech manufacturing. Additionally, having successfully run his own engineering and management consulting business since 2008, he has a wealth of operational experience in taking new-start technology companies on to high volume manufacturing.
Charles Sturman, Huawei
Charles is responsible for International Marketing for HiSilicon (Huawei’s chipset business). Based in Cambridge UK, with responsibility for product strategy, go-to-market and business development in IoT, edge and smart devices fields. He is also a member of several industry organisations, such as AIOTI.eu, Silicon Catalyst, Cambridge Wireless and Techworks. Prior to HiSilicon, he lead u-blox’ activities in the fast moving consumer IoT segment (wearables, smart-home and entertainment) following the acquisition of the ARM Software Radio spin-out Cognovo Ltd, where we was founder and EVP Sales & Marketing. Charles has held various positions in general management, product marketing, business development and system design within ARM, Motorola, TTPCom and Acorn Computers.
With 30 years of experience in VLSI, embedded systems and wireless communications, Charles is the author of more than ten papers and books. Educated at Southampton University, he holds a degree in Electronic Engineering and a Master’s in Information Engineering.
Douglas Paul, University of Glasgow
Prof Douglas Paul is a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies at the University of Glasgow. He was born and brought up in Greenock before studying Physics at the the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. His early research work at Cambridge delivered the first Si/SiGe single electron transistors (now being used by Intel as qubits in their quantum computing research programme) and he undertook some of the first strained-Si MOSFET work in the 1990s along. He was one of the editors of the Technology Roadmap of European Nanoelectronics in 1999 which became the Future Emerging Technologies part of the International Technology Roadmap of Semiconductors (ITRS) in 2005. He has worked with IBM on their 65 nm CMOS development process and on moving to Glasgow was the first Director of the James Watt Nanofabrication Centre. Doug was the editor of the European Commission’s Sustainable ICT Strategic Research Agenda in 2016 and since his PhD has been working on a range of quantum devices for low power computation and sensing. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Institute of Physics and was recipient of the Institute of Physics President’s Medal in 2014. He has sat on a number of Government and international advisory committees including the Home Office Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Scientific Advisory Committee, the NATO CBP panel and the MOD Defence Science Advisory Committee. He presently sits on the MOD Defence Science Expert Committee and a number of Cabinet Office national security committees. His present research uses micro-fabrication and nano-fabrication approaches to produce practical quantum technology systems for applications including position, navigation, timing, LiDAR, quantum imaging, memories, gravity imaging, sensing and secure communications.
John Tinson, ilika
John Tinson (VP Sales) joined Ilika in 2018 to help define their µ-battery’s journey from lab to fab and onwards towards a planned launch in 2023. Prior to Ilika John was with Sondrel, an advanced chip design company and NMI member. Using a degree in Physics John has worked in a number of early stage technology companies covering developments in photonics , communications and lasers.
Sean Redmond, Vertizan Limited
Sean Redmond has over 35 years of experience in the semiconductor and software industries. Starting his career as a chip designer, he led two market leading design teams. Firstly in digital stereo sound for television and then the first embedded mobile phone chip with VLSI technology. Sean was VP Europe for Verisity Design Inc, taking them from a standing start to over 140 customer sites throughout Europe in 5 years. He instigated and led the strategic partnership with ARM, fueling Verisity’s meteoric rise and IPO of the year on Nasdaq. Following their acquisition by Cadence, Sean became VP & GM of Cadence EMEA, doubling its business in 3 years. As VP WW Sales and Marketing for ARC, he helped turn it cash flow positive, leading to the eventual sale to Synopsys. In 2010 he founded and has been the CEO of Vertizan Limited, the developer of the Vitaq AI-driven Test Automation tool suite. Sean has recently worked closely with the UK government on industrial digital strategy, co-chairing the ElecTech council and being a core member of the industrial digital leadership team. Sean has a BSc(hons) in Electronic Engineering, an MSc in EE from Kings College, London and MBA from Henley Management College.
Caroline O’Brien, Kubos Semiconductors
A semiconductor industry specialist, Caroline O’Brien is CEO at Kubos Semiconductors and brings over 25 years of experience in the technology sector, where she has developed a broad knowledge of working with VC-backed businesses and blue-chip multinationals. She has held senior commercial and executive positions in several companies and start-ups, including HiWave Technologies plc, Pyreos and Oxford Semiconductor.
Caroline has dedicated her career to developing ‘deep tech’ solutions with a focus on commercialising new technologies and products. She holds a B.Eng in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from Swansea University and an MBA from the University of Bath.
Benjamin Walden, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Ben is a senior policy advisor in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, specialising in economic security and semiconductor supply chains policy.
David Clark, Clas-SiC
David has a strong background in process engineering and process development, with more than 25 years of silicon process integration, device engineering, process development and yield engineering experience at Raytheon Systems. David moved into Silicon Carbide process integration and device engineering in 2004 and has experience across many SiC device technologies including Schottky diodes, PiN diodes, MOSFET’s, JFET’s, BJT’s, CLD’s and MESFET’s. During David’s tenure at Raytheon, he worked on a number of successful SiC process developments leading to successful manufacture of 1000’s of SiC device wafers.
David has a first class honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as a Post Graduate Certificate in Advanced Silicon Processing and Manufacturing Technologies. He has authored or co-authored more than 10 SiC processing papers, is joint inventor of one SiC related patent and has 3 other SiC related patent submissions pending. David joined Clas-SiC in 2017 as Principal Technologist, with oversight of Clas-SiC’s technology roadmap and technical direction, leading to Clas-SiC’s reliability proven SiC MOSFET and Diode Process Design Kits being released.
Presentation: Advanced SiC Technology to Enable the Shift to Green Energy
The talk will begin by describing how power semiconductor demand is outstripping supply, with growth now increasing exponentially as the technology is adopted through green energy initiatives such as Net Zero, in sectors such as Automotive, Rail, Wind, PV & Aviation. With Silicon Carbide (SiC) offering efficient solutions for these applications, this provided the motivation for the start-up of Clas-SiC Wafer Fab. A short summary of the capabilities of the Clas-SiC Wafer Fab staff and manufacturing facilities will follow. Navigation of the start-up and development journey, intersected by COVID will then be outlined. The main challenges and how they were overcome will be described and Clas-SiC’s achievements and resultant offerings summarised. Finally, a summary of Clas-SiC’s future plans will be presented.
Amar Abid-Ali, DER-IC
As Chief Commercial Officer, Amar oversees the business development, DER-IC, strategic development, market research and intelligence teams, with a clear vision to drive the commercial adoption of Compound Semiconductors to solve the major challenges of Net Zero, Future Telecoms and Intelligent Sensing the UK. Amar previously led the European Vertical Markets and business development team for Future Electronics, specialising in RF, FPGAs, Embedded Processors and DSPs and Sensors.
Amar Abid-Ali, DER-IC
As Chief Commercial Officer, Amar oversees the business development, DER-IC, strategic development, market research and intelligence teams, with a clear vision to drive the commercial adoption of Compound Semiconductors to solve the major challenges of Net Zero, Future Telecoms and Intelligent Sensing the UK. Amar previously led the European Vertical Markets and business development team for Future Electronics, specialising in RF, FPGAs, Embedded Processors and DSPs and Sensors.
Andy Worsick, EMS Particle Solutions
Andy Worsick has extensive experience in the cleanroom and contamination control industries. He joined EMS in 2019, and brought with him a wealth of knowledge on both air and liquid particle counters as well as microbiological air samplers. He has sold and project managed the installation and validation of environmental monitoring systems, and is a well-respected expert in the field of cleanroom testing applications, having delivered many training courses on these subjects.
Exhibitors
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Alter Technology
Alter Technology is an outsourced semiconductor assembly and test provider (OSAT). Alter UK’s capabilities include package design and assembly for microelectronic and photonics devices such as ASICs, MEMS, Sensors, Laser diodes, LEDs, PICs and VCSELs. Our Fast Turn IC packaging service helps customers with rapid evaluation of new designs, reducing cost and accelerating time to market before ramping volume production. For volume run-rate production, our state of the art, automated assembly equipment can support millions of dies per year and now includes a plastic encapsulation capability for QFN packages. With our test laboratories in Spain and France we can offer full turn-key solutions covering wafer probing, wafer sawing, packaging, final test & screening and qualification.
Busch Vacuum Solutions
Busch Vacuum Solutions is one of the largest manufacturers of vacuum pumps, blowers and low overpressure compressors in the world. Specifically for the semiconductor market, we offer a comprehensive level of support in the following key areas.
Service: Service and repair of all the main manufacturers’ vacuum pumps and products that are found within semiconductor tools and processes at our dedicated service centre in East Kilbride.
Service exchange programme: We stock most key products found within semiconductor processes from leading manufacturers to ensure seamless support in the case of unexpected pump failure. Our field-based service team can also provide local support and service for products typically found on central vacuum systems.
Stock: We maintain a comprehensive stock level of semiconductor vacuum pumps and pump sets, spare parts, and service kits, for our own and other manufacturers’ pumps.
Abatement Systems: We offer a range of technical solutions for processes requiring abatement systems.
Systemised Solutions: Complete vacuum systems such as those found in central vacuum applications like pick and place.
CS Clean
EXHAUST GAS TREATMENT
At CS Clean Systems (UK) Ltd., we are the UK and ROI Distributors for CS CLEAN SOLUTIONS® and have over 25 years of experience in the semiconductor industry as your reliable partner for exhaust gas treatment, with a primary focus on dry bed absorption. In addition to the silicon and compound semiconductor industries, we also serve the photovoltaic, MEMS and other high-tech industries. Key advantages include: Safe, dry chemical conversion of toxic gases to stable solids, proprietary CLEANSORB® media; no handling of toxic waste for customer; practically maintenance free; local refill service. For the product range, please visit www.csclean.com.
GAS DETECTION
At CS Clean Systems (UK) Ltd., we are also the UK Distributors for New Cosmos – BIE Gas Detection Equipment, offering expertise for the most demanding applications in the silicon and semiconductor, photovoltaic, MEMS, automotive and other industries. For the product range, please visit www.newcosmos-europe.com.Key advantages include: Proprietary sensor technology with unique cross-sensitivity capabilities; detection of toxic, pyrophoric, oxygen and combustible gases; sensor recovery after large exposure to toxic gas; installation, commissioning and calibration services. For the product range, please visit www.newcosmos-europe.com
CS Connected
CSconnected is the collective brand for a growing number of advanced semiconductor related activities in Wales, home to a unique community of academic institutions, prototyping facilities and global, high-volume manufacturing capabilities that collaborate across a range of research and innovation programs. CSconnected is uniquely positioned to develop a global advantage in a sovereign, key enabling technology which will allow Wales and the UK to increase trade globally in critical sectors such as 5G communications, autonomous and electric vehicles, advanced medical devices, and consumer electronics of the future.
In 2020, CSconnected received government funding provided through UK Research and Innovation’s flagship Strength in Places Fund (SIPF). The 55-month CSconnected SIPF project has a total value of £43million, supported by £25million of UKRI funds. It builds on Wales’s regional strengths and integrates research excellence with a unique regional supply chain in compound semiconductor manufacturing.
EMS
Established in Ireland in 1988 and the UK in 2011, EMS are a leader in the cleanroom business providing our clients with a complete cleanroom performance
testing service.
EMS offer clients complete cleanroom monitoring solutions ensuring quality by design from inception to implementation, including:
- Full range of solutions in Cleanroom / Particle Monitoring
- Calibration Laboratory to include repairs to manufacturers specification
- Validation
- End to end service in the provision of designing systems, project managing systems, full maintenance and complete validation package
Our calibration laboratories are regularly audited by Particle Measuring Systems Inc, the established global leader in microcontamination monitoring.
ForrestBrown Limited
ForrestBrown is the UK’s leading specialist research and development (R&D) tax relief consultancy.
Our multi-disciplinary team is made up of qualified chartered tax advisers, accountants, lawyers, industry sector specialists and former HMRC inspectors. Our specialist team of software and technology specialists offer unmatched technical expertise and are passionate about helping innovative businesses grow.
We’d love to help you make the most of your innovation, whatever form that advice may take. We offer a range of services from advisory support in the form of one-off consultancy projects to full end-to-end claim preparation.
Horiba
The HORIBA Group of worldwide companies provides an extensive array of high quality, highly accurate & reliable instruments and systems for process monitoring, data acquisition and analysis to enable the UK Electronics Industry to develop products for the future. From semiconductor materials manufacturing and metrology to a broad range of scientific R&D and QC measurements, HORIBA’s products provide quality and trustworthy performance have established widespread confidence in the HORIBA Brand.
HORIBA’s competencies in Fluid Control, Measurement and Analysis are enabling researchers, developers, original equipment manufacturers and end users to deliver novels solutions to global demands. Whilst our scientific products offer 200 years of experience in developing high-performance instruments and analytical solutions. We also provide a vast range of products and solutions to analyse, monitor and control the quality of water and air, thanks to its measurement technologies that comply with environmental regulations around the world and contributes to the development of environmental conservation.
Inficon
INFICON – Driving Industry 4.0 Smart Factories through innovative manufacturing software solutions and sensorisation.
Applying Sensing technologies – Connecting critical systems – Predicting in real time
INFICON provides the most comprehensive and advanced Intelligent Manufacturing Systems for the Semiconductor manufacturing industry. Our FPS and FabGuard® product lines are proven to increase equipment productivity, labour efficiency, and overall factory efficiency by presenting critical information, automating complex decision making, and delivering industry-leading execution capability – all in real time.
Integration of INFICON vacuum instrumentation, leak detection and critical sensor technologies combined with process engineering expertise, delivers new data streams to enable improved tool performance, availability, utilisation, defectivity reduction, increased yield and more.
IC Resources
IC Resources aims to be a valued member of the wider technology community rather than a supplier to it.
This may seem a fine distinction but, in fact, it informs all our day-to-day activities. It means that we work with your best long-term interests in mind and, for 20 years, have supported industry organisations and charities.
By valuing honesty over expediency, we may occasionally encounter situations that are challenging or frustrating in the short term, but ultimately result in a better outcome for all parties. For example, providing honest and authoritative feedback about your expectations of the marketplace will always save time and energy in the longer term.
This approach means that, as a candidate, you can be sure that we’re on your side and offer you impartial representation at critical points in your career. As a client, you will benefit from a public relations partner communicating your message to the wider employment market.
Ion Beam Services
For thirty years, IBS has assembled the expertise, tools and skills required to meet the diverse implantation needs of global clients. Every year, the company continues to develop this technology to keep pace with the growing needs of the industry: implantation expertise.
Additionally, the development of services dedicated to equipment maintenance and spare parts has naturally led IBS to be able to respond to almost any implant related challenge. Knowledge and mastery of a wide variety of equipment types and vintages also gives IBS the capability to propose innovative and cost saving upgrades and retrofit services.
IBS’s positioning as a manufacturer of new-generation equipment, such as PULSION® and IMC™ validates its leadership in ion implantation technology, and offers its clients unique expertise to accompany them effectively in facing today’s and tomorrow’s challenges.
Pioneering spirit to serve our customers
Thanks boundless curiosity and passion, IBS has earned a position among ion implantation leaders. We are the only company to date offering both outsourced and manufacturing services and state-of-the-art equipment. Thanks to a visionary outlook, IBS maintains its lead, whether with the PULSION® machine through its success during tests at CEA-LETI and at the premises of a world leader in microelectronics, or with the IMC™ system, whose sales growth give it a key role in advanced technologies such as sensors or silicon carbide power electronics. IBS’s international presence supports the agile deployment of expertise and local support, necessary to make it a valuable ally for its customers.
Inseto
Inseto is a leading technical distributor of equipment and related materials to the microelectronic & advanced technology sectors, as well as adhesives for electronics, automotive & industrial manufacturing.
Inseto’s Adhesive Division provides technically advanced adhesives and equipment for bonding, sealing & encapsulation, including UV cured acrylates, light activated epoxies, dual heat and light or moisture cured materials, anaerobic curing adhesives, single part silicones, cyanoacrylates, structural polyurethanes and one or two part epoxies.
Inseto’s Equipment Division is a leading supplier of assembly, test & inspection equipment including semiconductor furnaces, lithography equipment, inspection equipment, probing systems, wafer dicers and scribers, die attach and wire bonding machines, plasma etching and cleaning systems, vacuum solder reflow ovens, wire bond and materials testing equipment in the UK, Ireland and Nordic regions.
Inseto’s Consumable Division provides production materials and machine consumable tooling used in the manufacturing of microelectronic and related devices, including wafers, bonding wires-ribbons, stampings, solder preforms, hermetic packages, thin film substrates, thick film & thermal dissipation materials, welding electrodes, thermodes, bonding tools, capillaries and dicing blades etc.
Lynbond 2000
LYNBOND 2000 was formed in 1988, as agents for a number of companies providing equipment for the electronics industry. We felt that with the benefit of our experience we could source and supply consumable products targeted at specific work functions. To highlight this, we subsequently reformed as LYNBOND 2000, the company now in operation today. Operating in the UK and Europe supplying to many industries such as the Semiconductor, Microelectronics, Biotechnology, Medical Device, Pharmaceutical, Optical, Automotive, Precision Engineering, Plastic Moulding and the food industries we are confident and only too willing to help you with your needs and requirements. Please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Lynbond 2000 is committed to providing a professional and personal service offering the most comprehensive range of Cleanroom consumables (cleaning and maintenance products – wipes, mats, rollers, mops; furniture, clothing and footwear, ESD products and gloves); disposable apparel and reusable products for controlled environments; safety products including cut resistant gloves and chemical protection garments.
Should you wish to contact us regarding our product range, our services, or any other aspect of our business, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Megatech
Megatech Limited is the largest independent supplier of equipment and services to the semiconductor and thin film industries in the UK. Established in 1973, the company has built a well-founded reputation for the supply of quality products, in-depth technical expertise, and excellent customer service.
As an exclusive UK outlet for a number of US and European companies, Megatech sells to end users, researchers, and OEMs as well as supporting all products with both field and in-house service.
Megatech have a modern headquarters in the Midlands with engineers located strategically around the UK.
Micon
Micon was established in 2001 to bridge geographical and cultural gaps between leading international suppliers and companies in the semiconductor and electronics industry. Our customer-oriented approach earned Micon an excellent reputation for professionalism, quality service and top-of-the-line industry contacts.
PMT (GB) Ltd
Contamination Monitoring and Control
PMT (GB) Limited has been dedicated to contamination control instrumentation for 20 years.
We able to supply Particle Counters for Air, Water, Oil, Chemicals and surfaces meeting all standards such as ISO14644, ISO11171 and ISO 14664-9.
Sterilisation and decontamination equipment to ensure your cleanroom not only remains sterile but can also meet international standards.
Ionisation equipment to eliminate and control static and particle contamination, ensuring improved quality and yield.
In addition to this we are also ISO17025 (UKAS) accredited for calibrations both at the customer site and in one of our laboratories for a complete range of particle counters regardless of manufacturer.
We are able to support the customer from initial request, solution design, equipment supply, and full support for maintenance and calibration both on-site and in-house.
Being able to supply contamination Control instrumentation for Air, Water and Surface gives PMT (GB) limited the advantage as a one stop shop for your Contamination Control requirements.
Working with clients in various industries including Pharmaceutical, Electronics, Semiconductor, Automotive, Aerospace, and Medical Device gives PMT (GB) Ltd a vast range of industry experience to assist where contamination control or monitoring is required.
PTW Europa
Production Technology Wenzel started in 2005 in Austria as a support company to local semiconductor fabs and was brought global in 2015 as PTW ASIA
with the vision to become a global supplier of choice for upkeep and capacity expansions for used semiconductor equipment. In the meantime PTW Asia has subsidiaries in all semiconductor regions and refurbishment centres in Singapore, Austria, Taiwan, China and the Philippines. On its growth path PTW is adding one or two technologies per year driven by the needs of its customers.
With PTW’s strong engineering background our reach is from solving challenging problems on parts level – through system reconfigurations and upgrades all the way to supply of customized tools with or without reconfiguration or refurbishment.
The European customers are supported through PTW UK & PTW Europa GmbH in Dresden, providing onsite service, parts, upgrades and refurbished tools for various tool types and technologies
Quartztec Europe
Quartztec Europe was formerly Multi-lab Quartztec until October 2015 and before that it was a Heraeus flag ship site manufacturing for many market sectors including Semiconductor, Solar and Fibre optic.
It still retains its highly skilled workforce, these skills being passed on within the Quartztec Europe internal apprenticeship scheme, ensuring the longevity of retaining an excellent skill base, second to none and recognised worldwide.
Quartztec Europe is without doubt the largest fabricator of quartz glass in the UK and one of the top five in Europe. Our facility is a modern purpose build manufacturing facility, which is 50,000 sq ft with 5,000 sq ft of offices.
Currently we have a work force of 35 employees, all with many years’ experience in their specific fields from Technical Sales, CAD design, Production control, Manufacturing, QA and despatch control.
The highly qualified management team lead by Ron Jackman CEO with Gordon Whyte, Operations Director and their team have many years’ experience in the Semiconductor, Solar, Defence, Aerospace, Automotive industries to mention a few.
Quartztec Europe is planning a large expansion for the coming year with new state of the art equipment and the implementation of new working practices to enable the business to grow.
RF Global Solutions
RF Global Solutions Ltd are able to provide a comprehensive repair and refurbishment service for almost any make or model of RF Generator and/or RF Matching unit in the market even after the OEM has withdrawn support for the equipment.
RF Global Solutions offers a free estimate service on all repairs, we thoroughly inspect every unit before providing a no obligation quotation for any required work. Should you not wish to proceed with the repair we will re-package and return the unit to the client with a comprehensive service report.
RF Global Solutions operates a no-fault, no charge policy, in the event that a unit is sent to RF Global Solutions for repair and we cannot find any faults with the equipment, we will return the equipment to the customer at no cost to them complete with a service report detailing the inspections and testing we carried out.
RF Global Solutions never mark up the price of components and we don’t charge extra for burn tests.
No calibration fees!
RoodMicrotec
RoodMicrotec is a leading independent company for semiconductor supply and quality services. With more than 5O years of experience in the semiconductor and electronics industry, RoodMicrotec is well established as a highly valued partner for many companies worldwide. The company provides full-turnkey services for complex microchips that are customized to handle specific applications for individual customers. In cooperation with strong partners, RoodMicrotec manages the entire development and production flow of semiconductor ICs in any volume, ranging from low quantities up to multiple millions per year. The turnkey solution includes project management, wafer test, assembly, final test, qualification, failure analysis and logistics. All services comply with the industrial and quality requirements of the high reliability, aerospace, automo¬tive, healthcare and industrial sectors. RoodMicrotec’s headquarter is located in Deventer, Netherlands, with operational units in Nördlingen and Stuttgart, Germany.
Value-added services include:
• Supply Chain Management
• Qualification & Reliability investigations
• Wafer & Component Testing
• Failure & Technology Analysis
Our quality management system is certified according to ISO 9001 and VDA6.2. The laboratories in Nördlingen and Stuttgart are accredited according to DIN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 by the German accreditation body DAkkS.
Scanwel
Scanwel provide expert solutions in Vacuum, Semiconductor, Surface and Nanoscience. Scanwel is a leading manufacturer and distributor of components and systems to end users and OEMs in Semicon, academia, government and laboratories and industry.
Scanwel supply vacuum components, feed throughs, valves fittings, gauges, pumps and materials to both the Semiconductor end users and OEMs.
Our products find application in the production and development of advanced materials and processes in a number of high technology fields, including nanotechnology, microelectronics, storage media, energy production and bio-medical and basic materials research of metals, oxides, polymers and coatings.
Sistem Technology
SiSTEM Technology offer a wide range of leading-edge process tools and ancillaries, automation, inspection, test and consumables to the semiconductor, microelectronics and other high technology industries, throughout the UK & Europe (and globally in some cases).
Our goal is to supply advanced technology products, which meet our customer’s demanding needs of quality build and reliability, on-time delivery, and competitive cost. Our success in achieving this has established SiSTEM Technology as a key supplier, in what is an increasingly demanding and ever-changing advanced technology marketplace.
A key part of our success can also be attributed to the impressive list of manufacturing suppliers that we are privileged to represent. Many of these companies are worldwide Leaders in their respective fields and they continue to contribute to the outstanding developments and ranges of products offered by the Micro and Nano-Electronics, Photovoltaic, Thin Film Display, and other High Technology industries.
SiSTEM Technology also offer installation, commissioning, warranty support, service contracts and upgrades from our factory-trained engineers, who share our commitment to quality of supply.
As an active member of NMI (National Microelectronics Institute), SiSTEM Technology attends all the key exhibitions and conferences throughout the UK & Europe to promote our tools and services.
SPS
SPS is a full-service distributor of equipment and consumables to the semiconductor manufacturing and R&D / University market. Our 40+ strong team is spread across Europe, South-East Asia and the USA, with specialist knowledge and decades of experience. Our innovative products and solutions increase process efficiency, minimise costs and reduce environmental impact. Our areas of expertise include Wafer Handling tools; manual and automatic including Transfer, Sort, ID Read etc., wafer cassettes, boxes, and all the wafer shipping components. For Wet Process & CMP we have pumps, valves, flow controllers, concentration monitors, heaters, megasonic baths and MegPie® transducers, fittings, sensors etc., and a range of consumables including CMP pad conditioners and retaining rings. We have advanced formulation Photoresists for specialist applications. Our wide range of Tool Health Monitoring covers all production equipment, and provides real time monitoring and predictive maintenance. For R&D and Universities we have a single wafer product range encompassing spin coaters, spin process stations, hotplates, mask aligners, maskless lithography systems and photoresists.
Strem Chemicals
Strem Chemicals UK Ltd distributes a wide range ALD / CVD precursors, nanomaterials including QD’s, aqueous conductive inks, high purity metals, catalysts and ligands. Our products come with licensed technologies, royalty free for R&D purposes.
We offer next day delivery on a growing range of stock in the UK. Non-UK stock held at other locations is typically delivered within five working days. We pride ourselves on customer service with essential customer updates to keep you informed of your delivery status.
Strem Chemicals UK Ltd is certified ISO 9001 and 14001 to ensuring quality, care of the environment and customer service.
Thermco Systems
Thermco Systems manufactures, high volume production and R+D series of diffusion furnaces, Wet Benches and Epitaxial Reactors for the production and development of silicon based and compound devices for the Semiconductor, Power, MEMS, LED, renewable energy and Nanotechnology sectors. Our highly knowledgeable and experienced team of engineers are innovative in their design, encompassing a wide range of manufacturing and process solutions to meet and exceed customer needs.
Thermco is committed to both continuous improvement and R+D across all our product-lines, improving performance, reducing TCO and supporting next generation cutting-edge technology.
yieldHUB
yieldHUB is a leading supplier of semiconductor manufacturing yield management solutions. yieldHUB is the system at the heart of yield management in many leading companies. From New Product Introduction to Mass Production yieldHUB takes care of data management and provides an integrated suite of analysis capabilities. Targeted solutions for inline fab data, through wafer sort and final test.
Zeiss
ZEISS is an internationally leading technology company operating in the fields of optics and optoelectronics. ZEISS has the most comprehensive portfolio of light, X-ray, electron and ion beam microscope systems in the industry and is a leading solution provider to the global semiconductor community. Solutions span semiconductor manufacturing from wafer fab through packaging and assembly. ZEISS materials characterisation and non-destructive failure analysis solutions deliver actionable information to both wafer fab and packaging/assembly processes to meet the semiconductor industry’s challenges for next-generation devices.
With a portfolio aligned with future growth in the electronics and semiconductor industry, ZEISS is shaping the future of technology and constantly advancing the world of optics and related fields with its solutions.
The company’s significant, sustainable investments in research and development lay the foundation for the success and continued expansion of ZEISS’ technology and market leadership. ZEISS is active globally in almost 50 countries with around 30 production sites, 60 sales and service companies and 27 R&D facilities. Founded in 1846 in Jena, the company is headquartered in Oberkochen, Germany.
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About Ramside Hall Hotel
Offering the perfect blend of traditional features, luxury accommodation and first-class service, Ramside Hall Hotel is the ideal setting in County Durham.
Situated on the outskirts of Durham City, the hotel boasts 127 luxurious bedrooms and suites, each offering its own unique charm with stunning views across 350 acres of beautiful private grounds. Once you’ve relaxed into your surroundings, our luxury spa provides the ideal opportunity to unwind, with one of the UK’s largest hydrotherapy pools, a state-of-the-art gym and a huge range of specialist treatments on offer.
In addition, Ramside is also home to some of the very best restaurants in County Durham, including the famous Pemberton’s Carvery, Rib Room Steakhouse and our award winning Pan-Asian restaurant, Fusion. You can also enjoy a round of golf on one of our two 18-hole championship golf courses along with a 16 bay driving range to help you get into the swing of things.
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