SAES Pure Gas Delivers Megatorr regenerable purifier to AIXTRON R&D Center
San Luis Obispo, CA, April 17, 2012- SAES Pure Gas Inc, the world leader and supplier of gas purification equipment, announced today the installation of MegaTorr Automatically regenerable purifiers to AIXTRON R&D facility in Aachen, Germany. The SAES Pure Gas MegaTorr gas purification units will purify Nitrogen, Argon, Hydrogen and Ammonia with a new redundancy concept that will allow both state-of-the-art gas purity performance and 100% uptime for consistent cost of ownership minimization.
"We are extremely thrilled to be involved in this beacon project for the European Research and Development Community" comments Mr Tim Johnson, SAES Pure Gas CEO. “With the installation of our latest gas purification solution, AIXTRON has ensured a solid and reliable base to pursue it’s leading-edge engineering innovation for MOCVD tools development and manufacturing. Leveraging more than 20 years of history and successes in the gas purification field, SAES Pure Gas MegaTorr purifiers will be cornerstone of new MOCVD technologies evolution for future lighting and other exciting applications".
AIXTRON is a leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry. The Company's technology solutions are used by a diverse range of customers worldwide to build advanced components for electronic and opto-electronic applications based on compound, silicon, or organic semiconductor materials, as well as carbon nanotubes (CNT), graphene and other nanomaterials. Such components are used in fiber optic communication systems, wireless and mobile telephony applications, optical and electronic storage devices, computing, signaling and lighting, as well as a range of other leading-edge technologies. Founded in 1983, the Company is headquartered in Herzogenrath, Germany.
SAES Pure Gas, Inc., a member of the SAES Getters Group, is the world leader in gas purification technology. SAES develops ultra-high pure gas-handling equipment, supplying gas purifiers for a wide range of bulk and speciality gas applications. Its innovative gas purification solutions are applied in several different industrial segments such as: Microelectronics, Compound Semiconductor, Display Industry (LCD, OLED), Fiber optics, Solar and photovoltaics.
