03/01/2004 When Jensen Fittings Corp. was sold to Swagelok Co. in January 2001, the purchase of the sanitary fitting and component maker may have been regarded in one of two ways—just another deal in the merger-acquisition trend or a transaction that allowed an autonomous life sciences-based firm to go global and a fluid components manufacturer to diversify even further.
03/01/2004 Recently, 60 of the nation's leading scientists, 20 of whom are Nobel Laureates, charged that the Bush Administration manipulated and censored science by "suppressing, distorting and manipulating the work done by scientists at federal agencies."
03/01/2004 The myriad of highly detailed and repetitive process steps should be enough to justify pursuing an automated cleanroom solution. Now, how do you do it?
03/01/2004 When I walked into the SEMI Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) European Standards Meeting at a recent SEMICON Europa, I already knew there was considerable global interest in the safe decommissioning and decontamination of cleanroom manufacturing facilities.
03/01/2004 That United States Pharmacopeia (USP) regulatory storm you heard brewing for the past five years has finally broken in the form of a number of new regulations and guidelines becoming effective this year.
03/01/2004 Significant energy savings potential exists in most cleanroom facilities in heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), process cooling, compressed air, and other utilities.
03/01/2004 In recent years, the exponential growth in semiconductor technology has been sustained by extending the capabilities of top-down manufacturing processes to smaller and smaller dimensions.
03/01/2004 Those involved with the assembly and packaging end of semiconductor manufacturing are seeing a fundamental change in the role of a few suppliers who used to be lumped under the moniker "subcontractors."
03/01/2004 Underfill materials are used to increase the reliability of devices such as flip-chips, chip scale packages (CSPs), ball grid arrays (BGAs), micro BGAs and other components.
03/01/2004 (March 01, 2004) Phoenix, Ariz.—A new study from Semico Research, 'Wafer Demand 2004-2008: Wafers Growing But Will Profits?,' addresses the key questions of will there be enough capacity to fulfill the growth in demand next year, and can we make enough profit during this upswing to carry us through the next downturn?
