Ricmar Technology GmbH, part of the Ricmar Group of Kramsach, Austria has purchased the end user line of wafer packers and wafer sorters from Integrated Dynamics Engineering (IDE), Inc.. IDE has its headquarters in Randolph, Massachusetts, and Raunheim, Germany. The agreement was announced jointly by Gerhard Zeindl, CEO of Ricmar Technology, and Peter Heiland, President of IDE. Both companies are privately held. Ricmar will manufacture the wafer packer and sorter systems in Austria under its own brand. The enterprise will take over servicing existing IDE wafer packer and wafer sorter customers through its own offices in the U.S. and Europe. All previous IDE warrantees and agreements will be honored in these product lines.
Commenting on the sale, Peter Heiland, 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. This sale of our end user products now allows us to concentrate all our energy on our critical OEM customers.”
Lead systems in the transaction are the AWP 200–2 and AWP 300 wafer packer systems. The first mentioned system features a dual robot design for reliable throughput of 150 wafers per hour, along with new patent-pending end-effectors for the handling of thin wafers (including those that are extremely warped) and the precision placement of interleaf materials.
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