INEX completes facilities upgrade

Mar. 24, 2006 — INEX, a UK-based public-sector facility that works with companies to develop and commercialize MEMS, microsystems and thin film sensor technologies, announced it has completed the upgrade of its 100mm fabrication line to 150mm.

The organization also announced it has added an additional 400 square meters to its existing cleanrooms for a new overall capacity of 1,000 square meters.

The upgrade project has been partly financed by the UK Department of Trade & Industry under it $156 million micro- and nanotechnology manufacturing initiative, and the European Commission’s Objective 2 program.

The expansion and upgrade brings with it a capacity of around 5,000 wafer starts per year, according to INEX, which said capacity is sufficient to support small and medium volume markets. INEX is currently investigating devices that address opportunities in the telecommunications, defense, and biomedical business sectors, among others. The organization is working on products with a variety of partners that includes both large multinationals and recent spinout companies.

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