Tempress Systems, a division of Amtech Systems has received a follow-on order from an existing customer and initial orders from two new customers, all based in Asia, the company said. The orders amount to $8.5 million for Tempress’ diffusion processing systems.
“We are very pleased to receive the sizeable follow-on solar order and to expand our solar customer base in the rapidly growing Asia-Pacific region,” said J.S. Whang, President and Chief Executive Officer of Amtech. “We believe these orders further demonstrate the increasing acceptance we are seeing for our solar products from our worldwide base of solar customers and prospects. In addition, we will soon launch our new solar PECVD product and begin testing solar wafers with a major customer.”