12 April 2018

SPTS awarded ‘Supplier of the Year – Customized Frontend Equipment’ by Infineon

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Orbotech Ltd of Yavne, Israel says that its company SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK – which manufactures etch, physical vapor deposition (PVD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and thermal wafer processing solutions for the MEMS, advanced packaging, LED, high-speed RF on GaAs, and power management device markets – has been awarded ‘Supplier of the Year – Customized Frontend Equipment’ at Infineon Technologies’ Supplier Day in Singapore for its “outstanding support and the performance of its plasma etch and physical vapor deposition equipment”.

Infineon’s global operational and management teams rated and ranked suppliers against stringent criteria, and SPTS was selected for supporting Infineon’s Power and MEMS business with its etch and deposition solutions. The award was presented to Kevin Crofton (corporate executive VP at Orbotech and president of SPTS Technologies) by Pantelis Haidas (senior VP operations) and Achim Janker (senior director - head of purchasing Frontend). SPTS was specifically recognized for being an “excellent long-term and reliable partner to Infineon”, highlighting the collaborative development of special process and hardware solutions to meet Infineon’s current and future needs.

“We continually strive to achieve a high level of customer satisfaction, and receiving this third Supplier Excellence Award is a real testament of the quality and performance of our engineering, operations and support teams across the company,” says Crofton. “As a long-time trusted partner of Infineon’s Power and MEMS businesses, we look forward to many more years of innovating together.”

Infineon is the global market leader in power semiconductors, retaining the top spot for both discrete power semiconductors and power modules, according to last August’s ‘Annual Power Semiconductor Market Share Report 2017’ by IHS Inc. SPTS is a preferred supplier and partner to Infineon, and provides etch, deposition and thermal wafer processing equipment to Infineon’s fabs in Villach, Dresden, Regensburg and Kulim.

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