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MW Zander, one of the world’s largest builders of hi-tech buildings and
industrial plants, is all set to give shape to India’s semiconductor industry.
MW Zander will
design and construct the assembly test and mark plant (ATMP) of the $3.5
AMD-SemIndia fab. Besides, the company is also in talks with Hindustan
Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation to set up its 10 proposed foundries
worth $4 billion.
Worldover, MW Zander builds semiconductor facilities for Intel, AMD, Infineon,
Chartered. It also provides services to the world’s largest chip foundry —
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC).
“We are designing SemIndia’s ATMP facility. We are also in talks with HSMC and
SemIndia to design their facilities. Globally, facilities management and design
constitutes about 25-30% of total project cost. We expect the same in India, “ MW
Zander’s managing director Helmut Kurzboeck told ET.
Going by these calcualtions, the HSMC fab may yield $1 billion for MW Zander.
The SemIndia fab proposed to be set up at a cost of $3.5 billion may yield $875
million in revenues for the company. “Of course, these revenues will flow over
a period of many years,” Mr Kurzboeck added.
In India,
MW Zander, is about 10 years old with life-sciences clients like Shantha
Biotech, Ranbaxy, Reliance Life Sciences, Astra Zeneca and Ministry of Defence.
The company provides clean room technology for the electronic, solar,
pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnological and food-processing industries, research
in the production of clean room components, construction technology as well as
facility management.
The company provides end to end solutions for setting up a chip fab from
consulting planning and construction to operation of semiconductor plants. MW
Zander also provides sophisticated equipment like cleanroom ceiling grid
systems, ultra filter fan units, air showers and precison air-conditioning
systems used in chip manufacturing.
A cleanroom is an environment, typically used in chip manufacturing or
scientific research, that has a low level of environmental pollutants such as
dust, airborne microbes, aerosol particles and chemical vapors. Isocab and
Hutchins & Hutchins are other big cleanroom suppliers in the world.
SOURCES:
Economic Times
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