PRESS RELEASE
Bosch Rexroth and Middlesex Industries intend to collaborate on Cleanroom Conveyor Systems
August 28th, 2008. Bosch Rexroth AG and Middlesex Industries are planning joint sales activities for Cleanroom Conveyors based on the well proven Middlesex technology.
Mutual supply with conveyor modules and components is intended as well as systems integration for projects in industries like Semiconductors, Hard Disk
Drives, Medical Devices and Photovoltaics.
Furthermore, both parties intend to cooperate on future development and manufacturing of the next generation automated material handling systems (AMHS), to provide complete source
support of the semiconductor industry for 300mm Prime and 450mm wafer
fabs.
George Horn, Middlesex, and Dr. Jörg Walther, BRL/EP, at the contract signing
In August 2008 George Horn, President and
CEO of Middlesex Industries SA and Dr.-Ing. Jörg Walther, Executive
Vice President Linear Motion and
Assembly Technologies, Bosch Rexroth AG, signed a corresponding
Memorandum of Understanding. Subject to approval by the antitrust
authorities both parties will conclude binding agreements within the next months.
With this agreement Middlesex and Rexroth will become one of the major
suppliers of conveyor and hybrid AMHS technologies to the semiconductor
industry. The agreement will also provide Middlesex the market
opportunity to introduce its leading edge conveyor technology to a
larger market currently
serviced by Rexroth.
Middlesex Industries is a leading supplier of logistics systems for
cleanroom applications in the field of semiconductors, flat screen
displays, hard disk drives, pharmaceutical industries, photovoltaic and
micro electro mechanical systems.
Bosch Rexroth AG is one of the world’s leading specialists in the
field of drive and control technologies. Under the brand name of
Rexroth the company
supplies more than 500,000 customers with tailored solutions for
driving, controlling and moving machinery used in industrial and
factory automation as
well as in mobile applications. As The Drive & Control Company,
Bosch Rexroth develops, produces and sells components and systems in
more than 80
countries.
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