Globalfoundries Dresden installs first plants in the new pure area

After only ten months construction period the first manufacturing plants in the new pure area of the Globalfoundries Fab 1 were installed for in the middle of June. For the first part of the pure area the chip manufacturer announces now � for equipment to ready �. � that is even for our rapid semiconductor industry a record �, says Elke cornerstone, manager of Globalfoundries Dresden. � defiance of delays of several weeks by the hard winter we created it to finish to the date and within the planned budget the first phase of our extension building. � cornerstone thanks the general purchaser, who made M+W possible Group Germany, as well as all building firms involved and their coworkers, � by its high commitment the planned adherence to the dates. � up to 800 construction workers were at the same time in different trades active, in order to finish the first building phase, one approximately 4,000 square meters large pure area. Altogether approximately 42,500 tons became prefabricated elements in 1. 298 transportation delivered and, local concrete blocks 27,000 cubic meters poured and 3,500 tons Konstruktionsstahl assigned. However those approx. 65 meters are enough for roof truss weigh 85 tons per piece. That corresponds in for instance the weight of a middle airbus. The short construction period was made possible also by a close vote with the administration. It is in particular the brisk treatment by the state capital Dresden to emphasize the national management Dresden and the support on the part of the Dresdens promotion of economy development. Until in the middle of September 2011 is to be locked now the second building phase. Then the pure area large over 10,000 square meters is to be finished as a whole for the following equipment phase. � we already gained corresponding experiences by earlier pure space extensions at our location to steer over the building phase efficiently and change over afterwards smoothly into the phase of the plant Hook UP �, explained Jens Christian Mueller, Projektmanager for the factory extension with Globalfoundries. The enterprise is the first semiconductor wage manufacturer with really global production and technology presence. Globalfoundries Fab 1 in Dresden is also over 3.100 highly-qualified engineers, technicians and specialists as well as an investment volume from so far more than 7 billion US Dollar the control post place of Globalfoundries � world-wide manufacturing on 300-Millimeter-Wafern. The enterprise is about at present to adjust 300 further coworkers. At present the capacity of the work is substantially extended. With maximum configuration Fab 1 with a pure space total area will be of over 50,000 square meters the largest and most modern wafer factory in Europe. Source: www.sachsen.de

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