Hi Keiko,
Looks like some of these chip manufactures are starting to look at solutions to meet the new EPA regulatons. Here is a news release I picked up on the web. I have not talked with the company lately on the "Good Nite Oil" business.
Motorola Wafer Box Shipped
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Claire Technologies, Inc. (OTC: CLEA) announces today that its
subsidiary Hyperflow Technologies, Inc. ("HTI"), shipped the second Wafer Cassette and Box Cleaner to Motorola,
Semi Conductor Sector in Phoenix, AZ. Wafer Cassette Boxes are required to safely transport wafers within the wafer
fabrication area through final test. As completed wafers are removed from carriers, the carriers are cleaned in HTI's
Wafer Box Cleaner before re-entering the wafer fabrication process to avoid contamination of new wafers.
HTI and Metroline of Corona, California are finalizing an agreement to purchase a custom ENV 1500, Next Generation
Solvent System. HTI's patented sealed, single chamber for solvent cleaning will revolutionize the industry as EPA
regulations move toward the banning of traditional "open vat" vapor degreasing. This ban is expected to be law by the
end of 1997. The ENV 1500 will be certified by the California AQMD (Air Quality Management District) which is
the strictest in the U.S. Upon receipt of this certification, HTI will be the first manufacturing company in precision
cleaning to have equipment certified for AQMD of California. This positions HTI as the industry's leading producer of
environmentally sound certified precision cleaning equipment, enabling introduction into world markets with
substantial product differentiation above competitive systems.
HTI has completed with several leading semiconductor companies an intensive six month test evaluation for the
removal of ink dots, phenolic and epoxy, from tested wafers. With HTI's ENV 2000, ink dots can be removed from
wafers in volume and without damage to the wafers or in the case of EPROM wafers, the possibility of erasing the
program. This breakthrough replaces the typical manual process currently used in the industry, ENV 2000 customers
benefit by increased production and savings from reduction in damage of wafers. ENV 2000's full-scale market
introduction is scheduled for the fall of 1996.
Joan |
