For Immediate Release
CONTACT: Tamara M. Berry
Director, Marketing
480 609 8565, ext 316
tamara.berry@oemgroupinc.com
OEM GROUP, INC. CONTINUES ROBUST GROWTH TREND;
ACQUIRES APPLIED MATERIALS MANUAL BATCH TOOL BUSINESSES
OEMG’s Fourth Acquisition in Three Years
and Second from Applied Materials
PHOENIX, May 8, 2011 OEM Group, Inc. (OEMG) has assumed ownership of Rhetech and Semitool Austria GmbH manual batch tool sales and service operations from Applied Materials, Inc. and its subsidiary, Semitool, Inc. OEM Group will control all Rhetech and Semitool Austria sites and will offer parts and services as well as system and retrofit orders for transferred products, including: Cintillio, Scepter, Sirius, Spin-Rinse Dryer, Spray Acid Tool (excluding HF Vapor – MEMS), Spray Solvent Tool and Storm. OEMG will offer these products, along with new product additions, under its new Chemical Process Technologies (CPT) group.
As a metro Phoenix, Arizona-based semiconductor capital equipment provider, OEMG is a global pacesetter in 75mm - 200mm new and remanufactured equipment and services to the LED, MEMS, Wireless, Power, Energy Harvesting, WLP, Data Storage and Logic markets.
Today’s move was OEM Group’s fourth acquisition in less than three years, and its second from Applied Materials. “Based on our track record, OEM Group was ideally positioned to integrate these respected batch- process product lines into our portfolio,” said OEMG President and CEO Wayne Jeveli. “The Cintillio platform, particularly, will offer value and impressive sustainability for chipmakers seeking a low-cost-of-ownership batch- process solution from a flexible, small-footprint tool.”
OEM Group serves diverse semiconductor and emerging technologies through its LEGENDSTM portfolio of proven products, including: MRC Eclipse (PVD), AG Heatpulse® (RTP), Varian Legacy Implant, Lam AutoEtchTM, Tegal 900ACSTM, 980ACSTM, 6500 HRe-TM and 6500 SpectraTM series thin-film etch products, Sputtered Films EndeavorTM, and AMSTM PVD series products.
OEMG Chief Technology Officer Chris Forgey said, “We continually seek opportunities to enhance LEGENDS with complementary high-quality products and technologies that will improve our customers’ productivity, enable new applications and provide the best and the broadest selection of integrated solutions.”
Jeveli noted, “This acquisition bolsters our already strong European reach with a world-class facility in Salzburg, Austria; and complements OEM Group’s existing presence in Japan and Taiwan. Our global bandwidth has grown exponentially in less than 36 months to keep pace with demand and to position ourselves for new opportunities. Operationally, the addition of the Rhetech facility in Pennsylvania nearly doubles our manufacturing capacity in North America.”
Effective immediately, all newly-received product and service sales orders pertaining to the manual batch product lines purchased from Applied Materials or Semitool will be fulfilled by OEM Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries. All impacted customers will receive details from OEM Group this week about their pending and future product needs.
Jeveli added that, as with all OEM Group acquisitions, “Our new Chemical Process Technologies will be backed by dedicated and uninterrupted engineering support. We’re committed to providing our customers the most seamless transition possible for system sales, upgrades, parts and service.”
About OEM Group
With global headquarters in metro Phoenix, Ariz., and additional sites throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia, OEM Group, Inc. is a semiconductor capital equipment manufacturer and innovator in new and remanufactured 75mm - 200mm tools and services for the LED, MEMS, Wireless, Power, Energy Harvesting, WLP, Data Storage and Logic markets. OEM Group’s proven manufacturing procedures deliver production performance and process expertise demanded by today’s most competitive fabs. Our LEGENDS™ family of products includes the Tegal 900ACS™-Series and 6500™-Series (thin-film etch), Sputtered Films Endeavor™ (PVD), AMS™ (PVD), MRC Eclipse (PVD), AG Heatpulse® (RTP), Varian Sunset (implant), and Lam AutoEtch™ product lines. And also within LEGENDS, and as part of our new Chemical Process Technology™ group, we offer Cintillio™ Spray Ozone Tool, Spray Acid Tool and Spray Solvent Tool as well as Scepter, Spin Rinse Dryer and Storm as a result of the 2011 purchase of Rhetech and Semitool Austria GmbH from Applied Materials. OEM Group offers foundry services designed for piezoelectric AlN films, yield-optimization and process and product development and demonstration. The company was founded in 1999. For details visit: www.oemgroupinc.com.
