Simax expands its sales and service capability in Asia
by partnering with Dymek

Hong Kong - Simax, a worldwide leader in services for established wafer fabs and Dymek, an advanced equipment distributor to Data Storage, Semiconductor, Optical, Photovoltaic industries as well as the R&D sector, have signed a commercial distribution agreement.

As a consequence of fast growing demand for its services and to continue to service a growing customer base in Asia, Simax is entering into a partnership with Dymek which has extensive sales and service network in South East Asia in the high tech equipment. Dymek will be Simax sales and service representative in China and South East Asia in the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) ABS slider market, IC packaging and LED market segments.

Dr. Cheng Gui, Director and President of Simax Asia Pacific Limited commented, “We believe by partnering with Dymek, Simax will greatly extend our capability in serving the HDD ABS Slider customers and IC packaging / LED customers in the region.”

“In order to meet our customers growing demand for high quality services and keep our focus on investing in technological capabilities in the Asia Pacific region, we are very pleased to partner with top level representative companies in selected markets. We are very happy to have Dymek as our representative, a real value addition to Simax’s worldwide sales and service network,” added Mr Eduard Hoeberichts, CEO Simax International.

“With more than 20 years of experience representing leading equipment manufacturers and principals, whose brand names are built up with our penetrated sales network, Dymek is well positioned to meet and exceed the needs of Simax’s customers. We believe this is a great combination and we are excited in entering this long-term relationship,” stated Mr. C.K. Wong, Managing Director of Dymek.

Dymek and Simax will be exhibiting at Semicon-China, March 20^th, 21^st and 22^nd at Shanghai New International Expo Center, Hall E4, booth number 4501 (Simax) and Hall E2, booth number 2716 (Dymek).

 

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About Simax
Simax provides a complete portfolio of engineering services for long term support for lithography equipment as well as its redeployment in new semiconductor manufacturing applications. This includes buying and selling of pre-owned equipment, engineering, field and apps services as well as financial services. The company services steppers and scanners from ASML and Nikon for wafer sizes of 200mm and below. Simax provides parts, repair capabilities, system refurbishments, audits and de-installations. Our engineering and applications services support optimization of lithography equipment anywhere in the world. The combination of first-class support with a cost-efficient operation provides exceptional customer value by increasing the lifetime value potential of equipment and production lines.Simax is headquartered in the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, The Netherlands and has a worldwide infrastructure of support facilities. It has offices in the USA, Mainland China, Taiwan, Korea and Vietnam and parts and manufacturing facilities in Korea and the USA. The company employs more than 75 people, many of whom are specialist engineers with long term experience in the semiconductor industry. Simax and its partner companies offer multi-product and turnkey solutions.

About Dymek
Dymek is a well-established equipment distributor in Asia. Broad range of product includes high vacuum process tools, metrology equipment, defection inspection tools, slicing machines, wafer bonders, aligners, automation systems. Major markets served are semiconductor, data storage, LED, Photovoltaic, MEMS, electronic component and research. Besides a strong sales force, application support and after sales service are highly emphasized in our business model. Customer satisfaction is our key value. Dymek maintains an outstanding record and reputation in the market.  

Dymek is headquartered in Hong Kong and has multiple office locations in Asia. It has offices in China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Japan. The company employs more than 140 people, over 70% are technical sales and service staff with multiple engineering disciplines. A large portion of our staff has over 20 years of experience in microelectronic and various technologies.

Simax at Semicon China 2012

Visit Simax at Semicon China 2012, booth 4501, and the annual Simax Applications workshop on March 21st.

The Simax team will exhibit engineering services in the newly designed booth, located in Hall E4, number 4501. A visit will allow customers to understand the support organization the company has established in China, as well as an understanding of its advanced full services, lithography equipment, and application services. Simax’s Chinese experts will be available at the booth.

On March 21, from 13:30 to 17:00, Simax will host the Annual Simax Applications workshop. This year’s theme is “Lithography Applications for More than Moore” and explores the challenges and solutions for research and production engineers working with lithography equipment and processes. “This is a great occasion for our workshop guests to interact with experts on More than Moore Applications from both technology suppliers and technology users,” said Cheng Gui, President Simax Asia Pacific, “as the presentations will cover a wide range of specific applications areas, such as, MEMS, LED and III-V devices.”

Those interested in the workshop can now check the workshop agenda and register online at http://www.simaxservices.com/workshop.

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Cheng Gui (Dr.)
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Simax at Semicon Europa 2011

Semicon Europa 2011 was held on Oct 11 – 13 with the support of the city of Dresden and the state of Saxony, as well as with the support of other European associations, including Silicon Saxony. It is the place to see the leading companies, technologies, and people driving the future of micro- and nanoelectronics design and manufacturing.

Monday Oct 10, 2011 – one day before Semicon Europa, Simax has used the opportunity to give product and company training to new agent Teltec. Brian Renner, Simax Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Erik Corduwener, Simax VP Business Development gave the training to a group of about 15 sales and service people from Italy, France and Germany. The Training contained an extensive Simax company profile, the basics of Lithography, steppers, scanners and their applications. Together with Simax, Core Systems, Simax Partner delivered a presentation about the Implanter disk refurbishment business and technology.

In Semicon Europa this year, Simax attended in great events, meetings such as Lively SEA section, Fab Managers Forum which is always a good event to catch up on the latest ideas and vision from the leading European wafer fabs, etc. Furthermore, the company had very good opportunities to meet with customers, business partners, friends in the industry. This also showed the successful launch of cooperation between Simax and Teltec, a good company with excellent connections in the industry and well position to represent Simax. TelTec will promote sales both for Simax and Core in Europe and Israel.

The 35^th Semicon Europa concluded with the successfully integrated Plastic Electronics 2011, impressive start of the FutureLOUNGE, more than 4,300 attendees, over 350 exhibitors, and 41 conferences and events.

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Simax Services and Teltec partner
on Commercial Distribution Agreement

Eindhoven, The Netherlands – Simax Services, a worldwide leader in engineering services for wafer fabs, today announced it has signed an exclusive representative agreement with Teltec LLC., the top representative for semiconductor equipment firms in Europe and the Middle East, to distribute Simax’s Lithography Products and FabCare Services, and Core Systems family of ion implant products.

In order to manage the growing demand for its services and focus on investing in technological capabilities, Simax is partnering with top level representative companies in selected markets. Teltec will immediately take on sales efforts for Simax’s products throughout Europe and provide account management support to Simax’s customers in those markets.

“This change is in conformity with our global strategy to provide the highest quality of support and sales coverage to our customers,” stated Brian Renner, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales of Simax Services, “the expansion of key representatives in strategic markets complements our recent initiatives to increase the ability to service the growing demand for our products.”

“All in all, these efforts help us to develop the most innovative solutions available worldwide to deliver the highest possible level of customer satisfaction, while enabling our ability to rapidly grow in line with demand,” concluded Mr. Renner.

Thomas Bohn, General Manager of Teltec North stated, “Obviously, this is a great combination. Together with 28 years of experience representing semiconductor equipment companies in the European market, a strong sales network and client list that includes major semiconductor manufacturers throughout the region, Teltec is completely suitable and well positioned to meet or exceed the needs of Simax’s customers.”

“Adding Value Added Companies like Simax Services supports Teltec’s initiative to increase our Fab Module coverage for the growing demand for support for mature products”, added Pierre Cahuzac, GM of Teltec South. “We look forward to adding Lithography and Implant Services to Teltec’s suite of Fab-wide solutions.”

Teltec and Simax will be exhibiting at Semicon-Europa, October 11^th, 12^th and 13^th at Messe Dresden, Booth 1.603.

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For further information, please visit our website: www.teltec.com or contact:

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General Manager of Teltec North
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About Teltec
Teltec is an ISO 9001 Company, founded in the year 1983; it is a partnership of two entities Teltec SA/Teltec Gmbh which are integrated suppliers to the semiconductor and other technology driven markets, for a variety of high value equipment, components and services. 

The company operates as a distributor for many of the industry’s leading spares manufacturers and also serves for several large manufacturers for a variety of direct, alternate source and repair activities. Teltec has 70+ employees in 9 offices located throughout Europe and Singapore.  

About Simax
Simax Services is a worldwide leader in service and support for established wafer fabs. Simax offers engineering and supporting services for lithography and other types of front end wafer fab equipment, with a focus on supporting and extending mature technology and enabling emerging applications. 

Founded in 2009 by experienced industry professionals, Simax has headquarters at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and offices in the USA, China (including Hong Kong), Korea and Vietnam, as well as manufacturing facilities in Korea and the USA. 

Simax launches its improved Website

Simax is pleased to announce the launch of its new and improved website, reflecting the continued development and growth of the company.

In addition to an overhaul in the look, feel and navigation structure of the site, we are pleased that we have added several layers of additional content providing our site visitors with more and better information about Simax’ products and services.

In the coming period we will build on this platform to further extend the capabilities of the site and Simax’ online service to its customers, partners and other site visitors.

We hope that you enjoy discovering our new website and find a lot of useful interesting information.

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2nd Annual Simax Lithography Applications Workshop at SVTC

The 2nd Annual Simax Applications workshop at SVTC, “Processes and Metrology for Emerging Applications” was a great success with record attendance. The presentations covered a wide range of Applications and Metrology topics including: MEMS, LED, Bio, GaAs, and Photonics.

The guest speakers, from HP, AZ, Triquint, Nanometrics, SVTC, DIMES, CPFC, Atmel, Benchmark and Incom, provided the audience with valuable insights into new developments and industry trends. The presentations were all aligned to the main theme of the workshop: “Back to the future”; where going “back” to rediscover legacy systems, and using them to develop “future products”, resonated strongly with the audience. This is actually independent of type of lithography system used, be it GCA, Ultratech, Canon, Nikon, ASML equipment as used in volume fabs or any other equipment, i.e. e-beam, imprint as used in R&D environments.

The Applications workshop quest now begins again, in preparation for next year’s event, to collect informative talks from industry and universities that provide the “more than Moore” community with a unique networking and information resource.

With its continued success, and increased level of interest, the Simax Lithography Applications workshop will be extended to Semicon China, March 2012. “China, with its tremendous growth in the “more than Moore” markets is the next logical step for our Applications workshop. There are many new challenges in LEDs, MEMS and III-V Applications that will make this a very compelling event” said Keith Best.

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Simax Services adds GCA Stepper Partner RTS Technologies to its Lithography Portfolio

San Jose, California – Simax Services, a worldwide leader in services for established wafer fabs, today announced it has signed partnership agreement with RTS Technologies, the largest independent provider for GCA Stepper equipment, to distribute RTS Lithography Products and Services.

Eduard Hoeberichts, President and CEO of Simax Services commented, "The inclusion of GCA Steppers completes Simax’s portfolio of Lithography combinations to that of ASML, Canon and Nikon tool capabilities.”

“Customers are looking for options and the addition of RTS Technologies extends the useful life of the GCA platform for years to come. We are pleased to partner with a company which has the same high standards and commitment to customer satisfaction.”

Herb Benjamin, President of RTS Technologies commented, "Simax’s recognized ‘one-stop’ Lithography model and continued success will increase RTS Customers choice for Lithography printing options for all GCA customers and micro aligners as well as providing a channel for International Customers.

RTS and Simax will be exhibiting at Semicon-West, July 12th, 13th and 14th at Moscone Center TextpotSESTG, the Secondary Equipment and Technology Pavilion Booth 841.

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Simax Services and NetMercury ink Commercial Distribution Agreement

San Jose, Calif. – Simax Services, a worldwide leader in services for established wafer fabs, today announced it has signed an exclusive representative agreement with NetMercury Inc., a top-tier representative for semiconductor equipment firms in North America, to distribute Simax’s Lithography Products and Core Systems family of ion implant products.

In an effort to increase customer satisfaction, expand market share, and improve operating efficiency, Simax is transitioning from a pure direct sales and service model to one which includes exclusive representatives in select US markets. NetMercury will immediately undertake sales efforts for Simax’s products in Texas and the south-western states. NetMercury will provide account management support to Simax’s customers in those markets. Simax will continue to serve customers located in other US territories with no change to the existing model.

“With customer satisfaction as our top priority, Simax Services has partnered with NetMercury. This change is consistent with our global strategy to deliver to our customers the highest quality of support and Sales coverage,” stated Brian Renner, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales of Simax Services, “Adding representatives in select markets is part of our initiative to increase our global coverage for the growing demand for support for mature products.”

“Overall, these efforts are aimed at focusing our resources on developing the most innovative solutions available worldwide, delivering the highest possible level of customer satisfaction, while enabling our ability to rapidly grow in line with demand,” concluded Mr. Renner.

“With Simax’s reputation as a proven worldwide leader in the field of semiconductor Lithography solutions, combined with the strength of NetMercury’s semiconductor sales network, this is clearly a winning combination. With more than 25 years of experience representing semiconductor equipment companies in the North American market and a client list which includes major semiconductor manufacturers throughout the region, NetMercury is well positioned to meet or exceed the needs of Simax’s customers,” stated Terry Hollingshead, chairman and chief executive officer of NetMercury.

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Simax Services partners with Core Systems
to add Ion Implant to Fab Engineering Services portfolio

Simax Services, a worldwide leader in services for established wafer fabs, and Core Systems Inc., a leading supplier of ion implant services and ion implanter disk refurbishment, have announced that they have entered into a long-term Distributorship Agreement.

Simax Services expansion into ion implantation services leverages Simax’s direct sales and established network of representatives and distributors.  

Walt Sullivan, COO of Simax Services commented, "The combination of Core Systems’ implantation technology along with Simax Services’ recognized presence and relationships with global device manufacturers’ management bring together cost effective solutions to our Customers largest CapEx and now OpEx requirements with Implantation solutions. Simax Services, through Core Systems, now adds Ion Implantation to its Industry recognized process engineering support services.”

Walt Wriggins, president and CEO of Core Systems added, "Simax’s established Distribution Channel enables Core Systems’ ion implantation technology to expand its reach allowing Implantation solutions to be made available to more of our Customers world-wide.”

Core and Simax will be exhibiting at Semicon-West, July 12th, 13th and 14th at Moscone Center TextpotSESTG, the Secondary Equipment and Technology Pavilion Booth 841.

Core Systems provides a full spectrum ion implant services. With implant foundry locations in North America and Asia, Core can deliver fast turns to and from either location. Core is the leading provider of ion implanter disk and site refurbishment for all types of Ion Implanters.

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Simax Vietnam receives Investment Certificate
at Saigon Hi-Tech Park, Ho Chi Minh City

Hochiminh City, Vietnam – June 06, 2011 – Simax Vietnam Co. Ltd. (or Simax Vietnam) officially received the Investment Certificate at Saigon Hi-Tech Park. This certificate is issued by Saigon Hi-Tech Park Board of Management and allows operation in the semiconductor service business from the date of issuance.

Simax is a young and fast growing company in the semiconductor industry, which focuses on continued service and support for lithography equipment and processes. The company provides professional engineering services and support for semiconductor manufacturers that will continue to use 200mm technology to develop and manufacture “More than Moore” applications. Simax products help these device makers extend the life and capability of their Fabs, and to differentiate their product offering.

Mr. Le Thai Hy, Head of Saigon Hi-Tech Park said, “We are glad that Simax is expanding its business in Vietnam and decided to locate the office at Saigon Hi-Tech Park, Ho Chi Minh City. We made every effort to support and create favorable conditions for Simax Vietnam so that it can begin operation soon. This investment will bring the advanced technologies and experience in the semiconductor industry and more job opportunities for employees in the area.”

Simax Vietnam, the latest subsidiary of Simax Lithography’s worldwide organization, officially begins operation immediately after receiving the Investment Certificate. The organization will initially provide administrative and operational support for Simax business around the world. In the next phase, based upon expected business growth, Simax plans to add manufacturing capability, which will include; equipment refurbishment/remanufacturing; distribution and repair of spare parts and modules, and potentially the manufacturing of new lithography systems.

Mr. Eduard Hoeberichts, CEO of Simax Lithography BV and investor of Simax Vietnam said, “Vietnam is a dynamic country with very talented labor resources and attractive labor cost. Therefore, it is a perfect location for Simax to build its growing support and product development infrastructure, and the High Tech Park is an excellent location for us. Investment in Vietnam is an important pillar in our plans for continued growth and is consistent with our recent expansions in the US, Hong Kong and Korea.”

See also this article in the Saigon Times newspaper.

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