Semitool

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Semitool was a semiconductor manufacturing/capital equipment company based in Kalispell, Montana.

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Semitool
Company typeBusiness Unit of Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT)
IndustrySemiconductor
FoundedKalispell, Montana (1979)
HeadquartersKalispell, Montana
Number of employees
1157 (2007)
Websitewww.semitool.com
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History

The company designed, developed, manufactured high performance and precision chemical processing equipment. Products included electrochemical deposition systems for electroplating copper, gold, solder and other metals; surface preparation systems for cleaning, stripping and etching silicon wafers; and wafer transport container cleaning systems.

Their main competitors were the Austrian company SEZ, Solid State Equipment Corp. (SSEC), and American FSI International.[1][2]

Applied Materials

In 2009, Semitool was acquired by Applied Materials.[3] It operates Semitool as a business unit and still operates the facility in Kalispell.[4]

References

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