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Electroglas opens US$4m facility in Singapore |
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01 Oct 2002
Closer to customers in growing region
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Mr Wozniak (far left), Mr Teo and Mr Dan Fields, Vice President, Customer Operation, Electroglas, at the opening ceremony.
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Electroglas Inc, a leading American supplier of process management tools for the semiconductor industry, has opened a US$4 million manufacturing facility in Singapore "to be closer to the customers."
Said Mr Curt Wozniak, Chairman and CEO of Electroglas: "Electroglas supplies to some of the largest companies in the semiconductor industry.
We needed an environment that was easy to do business in, technically sophisticated, capable of supporting our needs and had a certainty of success. Singapore fits all those requirements and more."
Electroglas is gradually transitioning its manufacturing capacity from its San Jose facility to the Singapore plant, which is currently producing the 4090u wafer prober. The company plans to gradually produce the entire line of wafer prober systems in Singapore by the middle of next year.
Wafer probers are test devices that make physical contact with the pins in a wafer slab during inspection.
Mr Teo Ming Kian, Chairman EDB, said Singapore was committed to develop the semiconductor industry as a growth engine by enlarging the industry's depth and breadth.
He was confident that the presence of leading players like Electroglas would create a multiplier effect to attract more related companies to set up in Singapore.
Mr Teo said the growing diversity within the semiconductor community was a good manifestation of Singapore's enterprise ecosystem approach to develop key industries and foster ideal conditions for industry partners, big and small.
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