Award Winner
Tronics companies now operates out of a
1.850m
2
MEMS clean room facility in Dallas,
Texas, and a 400m
2
MEMS clean room with
200m
2
assembly, packaging and test facilities in
Grenoble, France.
With 150mm wafer processing capabilities in
both of their MEMS manufacturing operations,
Tronics extends its leadership in manufacturing
high value-add custom inertial devices based on
thick SOI-MEMS technologies towards higher
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volumes and more diversified applications.
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Tronics now offers innovative, customized
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MEMS process and production solutions to
customers throughout the world for medical &
life sciences, industrial, energy and consumer
applications.
Important Performance Factors
From Qualified Wafers Tronics posted a 5% growth in 2008 with a net
to IC Manufacturing profit of 858k
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€ ($1.3M) despite the cost of its
Recognizing the impact and challenges that acquisitions and unfavourable market conditions.
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packaging and testing represent in 75% of its revenues were realised on the
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manufacturing a reliable MEMS device, Tronics production of components for its customers, the
integrated those capabilities as part of its remaining 25% being the results of product
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offering early in its history. The company also development revenues. As a global company
strengthened its design capabilities in the past providing local support for their customers,
2 years to provide its customers with design Tronics is now positioned for even greater
solutions for MEMS and electronic interfaces. growth and success in 2010.
This value-add highly differentiates Tronics from The IC Industry Award organisers felt that
traditional foundries that focus solely on MEMS Tronics was a deserved winner for expanding
processing. existing operations whilst expanding their
Tronics provides customers with full service offerings. The company’s capacity to develop
development and volume manufacturing devices with extreme requirements was an
solutions and manages supply chains for their important factor. The award decision was also
specialised products. based on the fact that the impressive efforts and
Thanks to those internal capabilities, continued progress have all been achieved
customers simply rely on Tronics’ expertise to within a global financial crisis. Tronics is one of
integrate MEMS-based solutions in their the key factors for the continuing success and
products, from qualified wafers to integrated implementation of MEMS products in the
packaged components. electronics industry.
Tronics provides customers with full service
development and volume manufacturing solutions
and manages supply chains for their specialised
products. Thanks to those internal capabilities,
customers simply rely on Tronics’ expertise to
integrate MEMS-based solutions in their products
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