2 January 2013

Inspectrology expands Europe and Asia operations with rep agreements with France’s Eumetrys and Singapore’s Excellis

Inspectrology LLC of Sudbury, MA, USA, which manufactures the IVS optical overlay metrology product line, has signed agreements to be represented in Asia by Excellis Pte Ltd of Singapore and in Europe by Eumetrys SAS of Gaillac, France.

Founded in 1980 from a project at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory, IVS was purchased by Schlumberger in 1997 and spun off as Soluris in 2003. In 2006, Soluris was purchased by Nanometrics. Inspectrology was formed in 2008 by IVS engineers devoted to the advancement of the IVS metrology platform, focusing on the 75-200mm-wafer-based market.

“Having acquired the rights to the IVS product line in September, it was critical for our business to quickly scale to a world-wide service organization,” says Inspectrology’s VP of marketing & finance Paul Knutrud. With a focus on MEMS, compound semiconductor, LED and other challenging processes, the IVS system is positioned to meet the needs of fabs running at 75-200mm wafer sizes. “Working with the experienced engineers at Excellis and Eumetrys has allowed us to ramp quickly and efficiently to meet our customer's needs,” he adds.  

“We have consolidated our stock in Singapore and are already installing new equipment for a customer in Singapore,” says Excellis’ managing director Martin Lau. “Our customers are seeing the attention to service we are now able to provide them.” Excellis’ business portfolio consists of equipment servicing, used equipment trading, and distributor of semiconductor consumable parts.

“Our customers reported to us they are very excited about the new support structure,” comments Eumetrys’ CEO Yannick Bedin, the long-time technical support manager for the IVS products, who formed the firm in November to fill the need for European customer support for the IVS system. “The IVS tools have always been great workhorse tools,” he adds. Eumetrys aims to work closely with Inspectrology to focus on response time and customer satisfaction for the IVS product line in Europe. The European region has important potential for expansion of the metrology marketplace, the firm reckons. Eumetrys says that it is qualified to both support the existing customer base and to enable expansion of the product line in Europe, with a focus on MEMS, compound semiconductor, LED, and high-value semiconductor systems at 200mm wafer sizes and below.

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