OTHER ELECTRONICS & NANOTECHNOLOGY
INDUSTRY UPDATE
July
2018
McIlvaine Company
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Cost: $75 million
Size: 109,000 sf total; Class 100 cleanroom: 30,000 sf; Class 10,000 cleanroom:
10,000 sf
Project team: Osceola County (owner); BRIDG (operator, under agreement with the
University of Central Florida); Skanska (contractor); ZHA International (program
manager); HOK (lead architect): Abbie Gregg Inc. (cleanroom/lab planning and
design (arch + MEP)); Vanderweil Engineers (MEP engineering); Walter P Moore
(structural engineering); Hanson, Walter & Associates Inc. (civil engineering);
NFC Landscape Architects (landscape architect); Affiliated Engineers
(commissioning agent); Terracon (environmental consultant); Colin Gordon &
Associates (acoustic and vibration consultant); VitaTech Electromagnetics, LLC
(EMI consultant); Jensen Hughes (fire protection engineering)
Description: Located at NeoCity, FL —a 500-acre master-planned intuitive
community of innovation in Osceola County, less than 20 minutes from the Orlando
International Airport and within a mile of the Florida Turnpike— BRIDG is a
unique public-private partnership at the heart of a technology-based economic
transformation taking place in Central Florida.
As an industry-led, not-for-profit organization for advanced sensors,
semiconductors, photonics and other advanced nanoscale systems, BRIDG provides
research and development capabilities and infrastructure for manufacturing
processes and materials geared toward system miniaturization and smart sensor
innovation.
BRIDG operates a highly versatile 200mm microelectronics fabrication facility—a
109,000 sf building with nearly 60,000 sf of laboratory/manufacturing space that
includes two cleanrooms; one operating at Class 100 standards and the other at
Class 10,000.
Focused on the innovative manufacturable processes, materials and equipment for
next-generation sensors and future high-tech products, BRIDG serves as the
catalyst to bring high-value, quality jobs to Florida.
As companies get products through development cycles, BRIDG provides the
necessary infrastructure (talent, equipment, background/foreground IP, etc.) to
test ideas and concepts, acting as the bridge to product commercialization.
BRIDG is the state-of-the-art “boutique” lab/fab facility open and flexible
enough to keep up with the ever-evolving pace of technology with space to
accommodate a variety of partner-funded activities.
Completion date: April 2017
Cleanroom
Suites, Brown University’s Engineering Building
Cost: $90,000,000
Size: 80,000 gsf; 46,400 nsf; 18,000 nsfl
Project team: RFD (laboratory planners), Kieran Timberlake (architects)
Description: This building provides flexible space to support high-end research
needs within the Brown School of Engineering. The building includes
approximately 18,000 nsf of flexible research laboratory space; an imaging suite
to house Titan-Class TEMs; a nano-fabrication microelectronics cleanroom; and
new entry, lobby, and classroom facilities.
The cleanroom includes 3,000 nsf of filtered space within a 5,000 nsf total
area. The cleanroom suite is positioned to be highly visible from the building
exterior and main entry. A three-bay cleanroom supports micro-electronics and
material sciences applications. An additional dedicated bay is provided for
nano-biotechnology work related to implantable devices and materials.
RFD provided full cleanroom design services including tool fitout design. The
project was delivered using an Integrated Project Delivery (IPD)
process—partnering the design team, the contractor, subcontractors and the owner
in a project delivery team.
Completion date: 2017
Mettler Toledo Grand Opening
in Lutz, FL
The Product Inspection Group of METTLER TOLEDO, a manufacturer of product
inspection systems for the food and pharmaceutical industries, hosted a Grand
Opening event for their customers on July 12 – 13, 2018. The 265,000 square feet
of office and manufacturing space houses three business units – Safeline metal
detection and x-ray inspection, Hi-Speed checkweighing, and CI-Vision machine
vision and PCE Track&Trace/Serialization units.
Attendees heard from speakers on key industry topics ranging from: Internet of
things, factors affecting packaging trends, OEE, TCO, data integrity/audit
trail, equipment safety, hygienic design, and choosing the right inspection
system.
They also had the opportunity to participate in hands-on demonstrations with
equipment of all five technologies, as well as tour the facility.
The new facility expands METTLER TOLEDO's capabilities with a much larger
production area, training and test labs, as well as multiple FAT rooms.
Ventec
Electronics to Invest in German Service Centre
Ventec Electronics has announced a US$300k investment for its Central European
facility in Kirchheimbolanden, Germany. The plan includes an upgrade to the
cleanroom environment, an additional Yow Shi diamond blade saw and the
installation of an aluminum coil cutting line.
Headquartered in Jiangsu, China, Ventec designs, develops, manufactures and
sells high-quality copper clad laminates and prepreg bonding materials for the
fabrication of a wide variety of printed circuit board (PCB) applications. The
company is present in Europe and North America.
The investment follows on from a period of sustained growth and a successful
listing of Ventec International Group on the Taipei emerging stock market in
January 2018.
Ventec said it is committed to further strengthen its German facility and team
in Kirchheimbolanden as part of the company’s phased and strategic investment
plan across our global network of service centers.
The $300,000 investment program at the German service center has been approved
for an upgraded cleanroom environment for prepreg panelization and the
installation of an additional diamond blade saw from Taiwanese manufacturer Yow
Shi, to increase laminate cutting capacity and flexibility, and shorter
lead-times. Details of the cleanroom space have not been disclosed.
Further investment is being made to the consumables business with the
installation of an aluminum coil cutting line to improve capability and increase
capacity for drill entry materials.
Mark Goodwin, COO EMEA & USA commented: "We are experiencing unprecedented
growth at Ventec and the German business unit is central to Ventec International
Group’s global supply chain strategy.
Goodwin continued: "In line with the growth in demand, the investment in Germany
will ensure an increase of our production capability, sustained quality
assurance and continued reliability of on-time material delivery by creating the
capacity and flexibility to deliver on our goals, while at the same time
committing to sustain employment at the facility in Kirchheimbolanden."
McIlvaine Company
Northfield, IL
60093-2743
Tel:
847-784-0012; Fax:
847-784-0061
E-mail:
editor@mcilvainecompany.com
Web site:
www.mcilvainecompany.com