Besi Newsletter

This is the first issue of the new digital Besi Newsletter. Not as a printed page, but brought to you as a web-page. Dynamic, interactive and always up-to-date.

On December 14 Meco celebrated its 40 years anniversary. Meco stands for “Metal finishing Company” and in its early days it had more activities than only equipment. The company started as an electro plating company building its own equipment. The equipment part became larger and eventually a separate company. Meco is part of Besi since 1995.

For years the development trend in the semiconductor industry is to reduce size, integrate more functionality and skip process steps wherever possible. With this development trend, the separation between front-end and back-end becomes smaller and smaller. This brings the cleanroom in view of the machines developed by Besi Netherlands in Duiven.

The recently completed EAST project in which Besi participated, has won the 2018 Innovation Award. The award was presented at European Forum for Electronic and Components and Systems (EFECS) in Lisbon, Portugal, 21 November 2018.

Besi APac and Besi Leshan successfully held a Supplier Day late 2018. Theme of the Supplier Day 2018 was "Quality and Reliability". Three suppliers were selected to receive the award in their category.

On an annual basis, the Supervisory Board visits one or more of our entities in the Asia Pacific region. In the week of October 29, all members of the Supervisory Board, visited Besi Leshan, Besi Singapore and Besi APac. Also one of the most important semiconductor manufacturers in the world was visited during the trip.