News: Suppliers
10 May 2021
Linton opens research, design and manufacturing facility in Wuxi
Dalian Linton NC Machine Co Ltd has opened a research and design center and manufacturing base covering more than 70,000m2 in Xishan, Wuxi, China.
This comes eight years after obtaining the exclusive license to use the Kayex brand name and becoming the sole owner of Kayex technology. Xishan is home to Linton Kayex Technology Co Ltd, the Chinese business partner of Linton Crystal Technologies (LCT) of Rochester, NY, USA, which designs and makes equipment for producing monocrystalline ingots of silicon as well as materials such as germanium and gallium arsenide (GaAs) for the semiconductor and solar industries.
The opening of the new facility brings Linton’s annual production capacity for Czochralski (CZ) crystal growing equipment to more than 2000 units per year.
“Over the years, we’ve taken the proprietary Kayex technology we were entrusted with and added engineering and service expertise, supported by a strong manufacturing infrastructure and sales team,” says Ron Kramer, Linton’s director of business development. “Since taking over the Kayex brand, we have tripled in size as a company and introduced nine new models of grower, as well as several updates and retrofits. The completion of this new facility in Wuxi enables us to conduct research, design and manufacturing of our CZ process growers under one roof, expediting product delivery to customers.”
Linton’s R&D targets both the development of new machines and technologies and supporting the Kayex technology still used in the marketplace. Among the most recent releases are retrofits to support the older Kayex growers. As the sole owner of Kayex technology, Linton is the only company able to develop retrofits, upgrades or replacement parts for these machines. In the past couple of years, the firm has developed a targeted retrofit image processing system, as well as a more comprehensive retrofit of the legacy consoles.
The Linton facility in Wuxi represents an investment of more than $432m. Saws and other wafer processing equipment continue to be manufactured in the facility in Dalian, China.
Linton offers Kayex Intelligent Crystal Control System legacy console retrofit
