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January 11, 1999 (TOKYO) -- Hitachi Plant Engineering & Construction
Co., Ltd., a leading construction company for clean rooms at microchip
manufacturing plants, said it will strengthen its clean room business
called Clean Room Renovation.
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The company will propose to customers technical aspects that will help
optimize clean room operations. These are based on its studies on actual
operating conditions of their clean rooms. The company has offered such
proposals to customers upon request. However, it will now act to propose
clean room optimization plans.
Hitachi Plant Engineering has formed a team of about 30 specialized engineers
capable of dealing with hardware and software. And it created a check-list
of 160 items for investigating the operating conditions of a clean room.
Also, it established an analytical center for analyzing generated particles
and contaminated substances as well as a clean-technology center to
optimize such renovation work.
Also, the company's proposals will include items such as management of
parts and operational procedures, and the training of operators.
In one case, Hitachi Plant Engineering proposed to make the most of an
existing clean room owned by a corporate customer that had sought to
build a new facility. The company found that the client's existing facility
could be improved by implementing a set of operating procedures and
plans to enhance maintenance. The customer agreed and said that the
cost was much lower than building a new facility. The client also noted
that it was able to achieve the required levels of performance.
Hitachi Plant Engineering seeks to increase its sales in its clean room
renovation business from 12 billion yen (US$107 million) in fiscal 1998
to 20 billion yen (US$178 million) in fiscal 1999, and to 30 billion
yen (US$267 million) in a few years.
(Nikkei
Microdevices)
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