Fourth Pentagon Facility Nearly Finished

July 20, 2001 — FREEMONT, CA — Construction on Pentagon Technologies Inc.’s newest semiconductor parts cleaning and reconditioning facility, located in Portland, Ore., is nearly complete.

The 32,000 square foot building will serve the greater Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain region. It will be Pentagon’s fourth such facility and was engineered to meet the demands of advanced wafer fabrication equipment requirements, including parts cleaning, recondition and knitting the parts and assemblies for 200-300 mm wafers, sub-180 nanometer fab techniques and copper interconnect procession. It features technologies like wide arc spraying and advanced surface particle detection.

“Our new 300mm based plant will be a complete processing facility. The combination of a Portland-based factory and local field operations will provide a set of services within the region that are unavailable for any other supplier,” said Dave Rossiter, vice president of Pentagon’s Parts Services Group. “We are building in capacity now in anticipation of the industry upturn later this year or early 2002.”

Rossiter said the company hopes to create more than 100 new jobs through a regional expansion that also includes increased operations at its Hayward, Calif. facility.

Other Pentagon facilities are located in Austin, Texas, and East Fishkill, NY.