Marposs acquires wafer inspection tool vendor Solarius

At Semicon West 2023, Marposs announces the acquisition of Solarius Development, a leading provider of high-tech manufacturing solutions for the Consumer Electronics and Semiconductor Industry. Solarius provides engineering, application and manufacturing expertise covering the entire lifecycle from design to installation, commissioning, training, application support, repair and maintenance of precision systems for non-contact surface inspection, measurement, analysis and visualization. Its solutions combine high-resolution sensors with automated data acquisition systems and powerful analysis software tools. Marposs said in its release "With the purchase of Solarius, we further expands our range of solutions for optical measurement into other phases of the production process including the "back-end" phase. In particular, it offers solutions for customers operating in the consumer electronics, green energy and in the semiconductor sector, an industry that is in constant growth, due to its fundamental role in the digital technological evolution and towards e-mobility." Solarius has a strong presence in the semiconductor regions of USA and Asia such as China, Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan. Solarius also has a Technology Center in Germany in 2018, doing R and D of control systems for the production of semiconductors. Solarius generated sales of more tha...