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Wafer packer and wafer sorter product line sold to Austrian technology company
Integrated Dynamics Engineering (IDE), Inc., has agreed to sell its well-established end user line of wafer packers and wafer sorters to Austrian company, Ricmar Technology.
Integrated Dynamics Engineering (IDE), Inc., has agreed to sell its well-established end user line of wafer packers and wafer sorters to Austrian company, Ricmar Technology. The agreement was announced jointly by Peter Heiland, President of IDE, and Gerhard Zeindl, CEO of Ricmar Technology. While IDE has been historically focused on supplying critical subsystems and components to semiconductor equipment manufacturers, the company has recently grown in the field of wafer packers and wafer sorters. This line of wafer packers and wafer sorters is based on IDE's proven robotics and advanced software. Commenting on the sale, Peter Heiland, IDE President, said, "Although, we have enjoyed tremendous growth with our wafer packer and sorter product line over the past four years, IDE had to decide between being an end user or an OEM-focused company. Being both, we felt our primary strengths were not focused enough. This sale of our end user products now allows us to concentrate all our energy on our critical OEM customers."For Ricmar, acquiring the IDE line comes at an important point in their long-range growth plan. Over the past several years, Ricmar has been building, through strategic acquisitions, a portfolio of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and services to become a comprehensive resource in this highly competitive sector. Sputtering systems, deposition equipment and automation systems for front and back end applications are now all part of the broad Ricmar profile.Ricmar will manufacture their newly acquired wafer packer and sorter systems in Austria under the Ricmar brand. With their newly expanded global sales and service organization, Ricmar Technology will take over servicing existing IDE wafer packer and wafer sorter customers through Ricmar offices in the U.S. and Europe. Gerhard Zeindl, Ricmar Technology's President, said, "The former IDE wafer packer and wafer sorter product lines merge perfectly with the proven product array now in the Ricmar Group. For our current and future customers, it is a win-win situation, concentrating more of what is required in one convenient source, the Ricmar network."
