Though Semitool, like many American manufacturing firms, has endured a difficult year, the company reported increased earnings and customer orders lately. In the quarter ending Sept. In an Oct. Semitool recently celebrated its 30th anniversary in the Flathead Valley, after founder Ray Thompson moved the firm here from California in Cons pretty stressful during down time. Job allowed us to stay busy; I learned to identify parts working with management of various departments.
Co-workers were fun and hard workers. Mandatory overtime was the hardest part of the job; working with other departments than my own was pleasant. Cons mandatory overtime during inventory quarter ends. Never the same day twice. Working weekends Fri-Sun , it was always a scramble.
If there wasn't atleast 1 revision to the product at the last minute, before the too was due to ship out the door, then it wasn't a normal work shift. I learned how to work under a deadline, work as part of a team but mostly alone , and make command decisions at the last moment.
My immediate management was reliable, and the persons that I worked with were good. Pros Always plenty of overtime. Cons Job security. Would you recommend working at your company? Help people considering your employer make a good choice. Given specific "tool" to build, left to build it. Loved this work and my co-workers. Great employee community. Were paid by company to search for a missing child. Were paid by company to fill sand bags for the flooding of the river.
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Its capabilities included immersion, spray, ultrasonics, hydrofluoric vapor, and infrared heating, to address cleaning, stripping, etching, developing, and gold-plating applications. In addition to its customary silicon-wafer applications, the Equinox was being used to process ceramic substrates, thin film heads, and photo masks.
The Storm wafer carrier-cleaning system was being used to clean and dry the cassettes and plastic boxes in which the wafers were being transported and stored. Semitool's VTP vertical furnace was designed to avoid variances in the process exposure times of individual wafers, thereby avoiding the nonuniformity inherent in traditional vertical furnace processing. Semitool's patented double-lift chamber design also permitted the heating element to be lifted away from the sealed process chamber, allowing wafers to cool more rapidly in a controlled environment and thereby saving time.
The VTP also had the flexibility to be quickly reconfigured for varying processes and to be easily upgraded to accommodate larger wafer sizes. Semitool also was fabricating frames, consoles, and the components to fill them itself, rather than subcontracting for these materials. We know it's tough for the other guys to do that. At the end of Semitool had U. Customers outside the United States accounted for about The company's chief property was a ,square-foot facility on a acre site in Kalispell.
It planned to build a facility in Cambridge, England, in for its European sales, service, and customer-demonstration operations.
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