Private equity player Active Capital is acquiring all shares of Germany-based Lieb, a former family-owned outfit specialized in precision transport and positioning, particularly for semiconductor machines. The company is also active in automation solutions for automotive, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, electrical engineering and plastics.
In recent years, Lieb has focused primarily on the semicon equipment market. At Semicon Europe 2022, it demonstrated various solutions, such as wafer handlers, load ports and pre-aligners. In Munich, the company also showed an equipment front-end module (EFEM), a subsystem that slides silicon slices back and forth at high speed and precision between ultrasonic storage and transport boxes and processing, measurement and testing systems. Lieb also develops and assembles fully integrated systems and machines.
“In the machine market for semicon, Lieb operates as an organization that carries out projects for OEMs,” says Johannes Sensmeyer, who’s involved with Lieb several days a week as an investment associate at Active Capital. “The company also develops modules for wafer quality analyses, integrating third-party measurement technologies,” he gives as an example.
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