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- Founding of second wholly owned subsidiary in USA: EV Group Inc., Cranston, Rhode Island, for sales and customer support.
- Headquarters building and manufacturing floor expansion, doubling of total floor (to ~ 6500 m²).
- EV Group developed the first hot embossing system for emerging BioMEMS and microfluidics applications.
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- Fully-automated and integrated production systems were introduced. They cover all essential process steps for wafer bonding and lithography, providing a maximum integration and automation level: GEMINI® – The ultimate production wafer bonding system with integration of all wafer bonding process steps.
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- HERCULES® – Fully automated and integrated lithography track system for coat/bake-align/expose - develop processes.
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