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Towa opens new packaging development centre
The facility will cater for packaging a number of products including MEMS for European customers
The Towa Corporation of Japan has established its activities in Europe with an Innovation Centre for Packaging Development.
Towa is a supplier of packaging equipment for the semiconductor, electronics and LED industries.
Europe has become an area where special IC´s and electronic applications are being developed and produced, such as sensors, MEMS, vision applications, specific IC’s, in particular for semiconductor, automotive and medical applications.
In 2004 Towa Europe GmbH was established, to serve European customers. The activities originally consisted of the supply of the Towa encapsulation equipment, after sales service and spare parts.
However, in addition to this, the cooperation with the package/product development centres of European customers and European institutes became an important activity and Towa Europe started to play a leading role in the development of new products.
To further expand this, it was decided to establish a Packaging Development Centre in the Netherlands, for which Towa Europe has been founded. This centre is located at Geograaf 14, Duiven, The Netherlands.
Towa Laboratory
A fully equipped laboratory with two Towa molding systems, test and measuring equipment as well as an engineering department is available to give full support in all the phases of product development, from initial concept up to test, qualification and industrialisation.
The Dutch, German and English speaking staff will be happy to assist European customers with the exciting process of new package development. Also the European Marketing, Sales and Service department for the Towa systems is located at this new facility.
