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To: FJB who wrote (15108)	2/26/1998 6:16:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 25960

AMAT to slow production.......... A service of Semiconductor Business News, CMP Media Inc. Story posted at 5:45 p.m. EST/2:45 p.m. PST, 2/26/98 Applied plans to shut production up to 12 days due to soft business SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Applied Materials Inc. here is planning to shut down its production lines for up to 12 days scattered throughout 1998 -- another sign that the equipment market is slowing down this year. A spokeswoman today for Applied said "potentially lower business for the year" prompted the world's largest equipment vendor to schedule extra days for shutting down operations. Although Applied in the past has closed for short plant-wide vacations, the dozen days slated for 1998 is a higher level of shutdown than in past years. The curtailed production is attributed not only to the Asian financial crisis but also to a lesser slowdown in orders from parts of the world.