What’s the secret behind VDL Enabling Technologies Group? The supplier of high-quality mechanical components, modules and complete systems has weathered the financial crisis well and is taking work off powerhouse ASML’s hands by developing wafer handlers. From research to production, VDL ETG believes in working together as equals.
VDL Enabling Technologies (VDL ETG) is one of ASML’s largest suppliers. The VDL Group’s total revenue in 2016 was more than three billion euros, some 250 million of which came from ASML. The semiconductor equipment manufacturer has ambitious plans for growth: in 2020 its total revenue should reach ten billion euros. The supplier is hoping to share in the wealth – or help create it, depending on how you look at things.
VDL ETG manufactures the housing, called the vessel, for the EUV source, including cabling and other associated parts. Guustaaf Savenije, the CEO and CTO of the VDL division, has a prototype standing outside his office, so that his people and colleagues from ASML can play with it.
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