EVG investing €30m to expand capacity at HQ

EV Group – a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for semiconductor, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology applications – has begun construction on another building project at its corporate headquarters in St. Florian am Inn, Austria. With an investment of €30m, the new Cleanroom V building will create additional capacity for product and process development, equipment demonstrations for existing and potential customers, feasibility studies as well as prototyping and pilot production.

The groundwork for the new building was recently finished and includes footings up to 14m deep into the ground. After the new cleanroom is completed, it will host equipment such as EVG’s lithography systems, wafer bonders and metrology systems (operating with micro- and nanometer accuracies). EVG says that the contaminant-free conditions of its cleanrooms at its headquarters, as well as its subsidiaries in America and Asia, are comparable to those in the fabs of customers worldwide.

EVG’s executive board (from left to right): Dr Werner Thallner, Erich Thallner, Aya Maria Thallner, Hermann Waltl and Paul Lindner.

Picture: EVG’s executive board (from left to right): Dr Werner Thallner, Erich Thallner, Aya Maria Thallner, Hermann Waltl and Paul Lindner.

“Just this past April, EV Group celebrated the opening of our new Manufacturing III facility with our employees, which itself provides 1800m2 of additional production floor space for the final assembly of our equipment,” notes executive operations & financial director Dr Werner Thallner. “In the meantime, the construction crews already started to work at the other end of our campus on this new building, which will add even more capacity to support our business growth. With the investment in expanding our cleanroom capacity, we continue to demonstrate our local commitment to Austria, as well as our global commitment to our worldwide customers,” he adds.

“Our engineers develop and optimize wafer processes for our equipment to fulfill individual production requirements, often in close cooperation with our customers,” says corporate technology development & IP director Markus Wimplinger. “This new building will open completely new opportunities to the EVG technology teams,” he believes.

3D rendering of new building adjacent to existing reception and office building.

Picture: 3D rendering of new building adjacent to existing reception and office building.

The new Cleanroom V building will provide about 620m2 of additional cleanroom floor space - nearly doubling cleanroom capacity at EVG’s headquarters. In total, the new building will encompass a floor space of about 4400m2. Construction work is due to be completed by the middle of 2020.

EVG says that, in the last 10 years alone, investment at its headquarters (where worldwide development and production are centralized) amounted to nearly €100m. During this period, EVG expanded its manufacturing capacity, machining center, cleanrooms and application labs in several stages and built a new R&D center and training center. Also, in addition to the new reception and office building with its continuous glass front, a large company restaurant as well as a day-care facility for EVG staff were created.

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