Brooks Automation, Inc. Breaks Own Industry Record for 300mm Load Port Shipments; Shipments of Fab-Ready 300mm Load Port FIXLOAD Exceed 2,000.Business/Technology Editors CHELMSFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001 Brooks Automation, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : BRKS BRKS Brooks (street suffix) ), a leader in semiconductor tool and factory automation solutions for the global semiconductor industry, today announced it has shipped its 2000th 300mm Load Port FIXLOAD(TM) to the SEZ SEZ Special Economic Zone SEZ Stream Environment Zone SEZ Mahe Island, Seychelles - Mahe Island Seychelles International (Airport Code) Group, a leading supplier of semiconductor spin-processing equipment to the global semiconductor chip manufacturing industry. The 2000th FIXLOAD was supplied by Brooks Automation's Factory Interface Business Unit in Jena, Germany. The FIXLOAD uses Brooks Automation's patented Front Opening Unified Pod (FOUP FOUP Front Opening Unified Pod ) technology which is the standard for 300mm wafer production. Brooks Automation is the market leader in FOUP opener technology and products. "Providing our fab customers with the cleanest, most state-of-the-art process tools is our uppermost objective," said Alexander Urch, strategic purchasing manager A Purchasing Manager is an employee within a company, business or other organization who is responsible at some level for buying or approving the acquisition of goods and services needed by the company. at SEZ AG SEZ AG is an Austrian based company specialising in the manufacture of wet processing equipment for the Semiconductor Manufacturing industry. in Austria. "When selecting our suppliers, we require excellent specification data, highest quality and outstanding service to achieve superior cleanliness, throughput and reliability for our tools. Because we know that the FIXLOAD is one of the most widely accepted 300mm Load Ports among our fab customers, we have chosen Brooks Automation as one of our main Load Port suppliers. Since integrating the FIXLOAD in our equipment, we have been able to deliver a superior `Comprehensive Clean Concept' to our fab customers. With the FIXLOAD's outstanding `Particle per Wafer Pass' performance, our equipment fulfills our fab customers' strict cleanliness class requirements." Brooks Automation, Inc. Brooks Automation, Inc. is the leading global supplier of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. 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As an established market leader in hardware and software automation, Brooks continues to pioneer "Best-in-Class" technologies that outperform their competitors - from vacuum and atmospheric robots, cluster tool platforms and modules, ultra-clean mini-environments for isolating processing equipment and wafers - to factory and tool automation software and integration services. Both OEM and fab customers leverage Brooks Automation's products and environments. The Company has ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 certification, is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA and has direct operations in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan. Brooks' web-site is www.brooks.com. The SEZ Group The SEZ Group is a leading supplier of semiconductor spin-processing equipment to the global semiconductor chip manufacturing industry. The company's breakthrough proprietary spin-processor technology forms the basis of a broad portfolio of backside and frontside wafer surface conditioning products for semiconductor chipmakers worldwide. SEZ maintains development, manufacturing, sales, marketing and service operations in Europe, Asia and North America. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. 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These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties including, without limitation, risks relating to the Company's dependence on the cyclical semiconductor industry, the Company's dependence on relatively few customers for a significant portion of its revenues, the Company's reliance on sales to OEM customers and the lengthy sales cycles of those customers, the ability of the Company to continue to successfully develop and market new products and product enhancements on a timely basis, the ability to integrate recent acquisitions into the Company, the highly competitive nature and rapid technological change that characterize the industries in which the Company competes, and other risks and uncertainties described in the Company's reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. As a result, there can be no assurance that the Company's future results will not be materially different than those projected. The Company also operates in an industry sector where securities' values are highly volatile and may be influenced by economic and other factors beyond the Company's control. The forward-looking statements contained herein speak only of the Company's expectations as of the date of this press release. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statement to reflect any change in the Company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based. |
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