The SEZ Group, its local subsidiary being Austria's biggest company in Taiwan, is a leading supplier of semiconductor equipment to the global chip manufacturing industry. SEZ reported exceptionally strong numbers for the first half of 2001 compared to the rest of the semiconductor industry, with seven month year to date sales growth of 87 percent in dollar terms compared to 2 percent for the recently reported SEMI (North American semiconductor equipment company trade association) group of companies. In light of the current market situation and the recent world events, the industry is currently expecting to see a 28 percent decrease in sales compared to 2000. Against the industry trend, SEZ is experiencing exceptional growth even for the whole of 2001.
Due to its proprietary technology and strategic focus on the most advanced industry developments (300mm and Copper technologies) SEZ still expects an increase of 28 to 33 percent in net sales over last year. As the semiconductor industry is approaching geometries beyond 0.1 microns, SEZ's solutions for wafer surface conditioning have become a yield enhancing "must-have" for state of the art 200mm and 300mm fabs. SEZ's applications are developed around the group's proprietary spin etching technology which is based on single wafer processing (in contrast to batch processing which used to be the standard for all wet chemical processes) pioneered by SEZ in the 1990s and now adapted by most of SEZ's competitors. SEZ has patented its design and with 15 years of experience in equipment and process development has considerable technological advantage over its competitors.
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