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AIXTRON and SINANO establish new Chinese MOCVD training center
06.07.2011 / 08:35
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AIXTRON and SINANO establish new Chinese MOCVD training center
Shanghai, P.R. China, July 6, 2011 - AIXTRON SE today announces a formal
cooperation agreement between AIXTRON and the Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech
and Nano-bionics (SINANO), China to establish a brand new MOCVD training
and demo facility to train its Chinese customers and potential customers'
engineers.
With the recent rapid expansion of the solid state lighting business in the
region, China's orders for MOCVD equipment have increased sharply. The new
center will enable the region to address the issue of a shortage of
professionally trained staff such as MOCVD operators and maintenance
engineers in the Yangtze River delta area.
The new training center, located in the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) will
start up later this year, and will be a joint collaboration between AIXTRON
and SINANO, a long-term AIXTRON MOCVD equipment user.
SINANO already has several AIXTRON R&D systems in its facility but for the
new center AIXTRON will install its latest MOCVD system generation
equipment, the CRIUS(R) II and the AIX G5 HT. In addition, the center will
be staffed by highly experienced AIXTRON process and maintenance engineers
as well as numerous other training professionals.
The signing ceremony took place on June 22, 2011 in Suzhou, where officials
from both organizations formally committed themselves to this unique new
collaboration. During the agreement signing ceremony, Wolfgang Breme CFO of
AIXTRON expressed his enthusiasm for the project: 'With the new training
center AIXTRON will provide the necessary support for this very important
part of China's industrial future. Supported by the national government's
latest 5-year plan, China plans to become a leading global manufacturer of
LED devices. This center will provide the prerequisites for the education
of highly skilled MOCVD operators. We chose the Suzhou region due to its
well established infrastructure - it is home to many already successful big
enterprises and industries. And we chose SINANO because we believe that
they are the best partner for this prestigious project'.
About SINANO
SINANO - the Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics at the Chinese
Academy of Sciences (CAS), was jointly founded in 2006 by CAS, Jiangsu
Provincial Government and the Suzhou Municipal People's Government. The
100-acre institute is located in the Suzhou Dushu Lake Science and
Education Innovation District and is being built with a phased construction
cost of 428 million Yuan. The next construction phase of the project will
be complete by the end of 2012 with a construction cost totaling 680
million Yuan.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is one of China's leading academic
institution and comprehensive research and development center active in
natural sciences, technological sciences and high-tech innovation. It was
founded in Beijing on 1st November 1949 from the former Academia Sinica
(Central Academy of Sciences) and Peiping Academy of Sciences.
For further information on AIXTRON (FSE: AIXA, ISIN DE000A0WMPJ6; NASDAQ:
AIXG, ISIN US0096061041) please consult our website at: www.aixtron.com.
Contact:
Guido Pickert
Investor Relations and Corporate Communications
AIXTRON SE, Kaiserstr. 98, 52134 Herzogenrath, Germany
Phone: +49 241 8909 444, Fax: +49 241 8909 445, invest@aixtron.com
www.aixtron.com
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from a variety of factors, such as actual customer orders received by
AIXTRON, the level of demand for deposition technology in the market, the
timing of final acceptance of products by customers, the condition of
financial markets and access to financing for AIXTRON, general conditions
in the market for deposition plants and macroeconomic conditions,
cancellations, rescheduling or delays in product shipments, production
capacity constraints, extended sales and qualification cycles, difficulties
in the production process, the general development in the semi-conductor
industry, increased competition, fluctuations in exchange rates,
availability of public funding, fluctuations and/or changes in interest
rates, delays in developing and marketing new products, a deterioration of
the general economic situation and any other factors discussed in any
reports or other announcements field by AIXTRON with the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission. Any forward-looking statements contained in this
document are based on current expectations and projections of the executive
board and on information currently available to it and are made as at the
date hereof. AIXTRON undertakes no obligation to revise or update any
forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise, unless expressly required to do so by law.
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Company: AIXTRON SE
Kaiserstr. 98
52134 Herzogenrath
Deutschland
Phone: +49 (241) 8909-444
Fax: +49 (241) 8909-445
E-mail: invest@aixtron.com
Internet: www.aixtron.com
ISIN: DE000A0WMPJ6, US0096061041
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