Entegris Promotes Richard Lemons To Senior Vice President, Integrated Shipping Systems Business.CHASKA, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1999-- Entegris, Inc., a critical materials management Materials management is the branch of logistics that deals with the tangible components of a supply chain. Specifically, this covers the acquisition of spare parts and replacements, quality control of purchasing and ordering such parts, and the standards involved in ordering, company, today announced that it has promoted Richard M. Lemons to serve as senior vice president of its Integrated Shipping Systems Business. Lemons, who served as vice president of global sales and marketing for EMPAK, Inc. prior to the recent Fluoroware/EMPAK merger, reports directly to Entegris Executive Vice President Jim Dauwalter. In his new role, Lemons is responsible for overall planning and operational results for the Integrated Shipping Systems Business, which manufactures wafer and disk shipping systems for the semiconductor and disk drive industries, respectively. In addition, Lemons oversees customer satisfaction and a variety of intellectual projects within the business unit. Lemons noted, "Our shipping systems are the most cost-effective assurance of materials' integrity for wafer manufacturers, disk media manufacturers and hard disk drive producers in the industry. With the merger, Entegris has global manufacturing capability, as well as the infrastructure to provide exceptional service and support to our worldwide customer base on a local scale." Integrated Shipping Systems offers three product lines. Disk shipping systems include single and multiple disk substrate-shipping containers for the magnetic memory industry. Disk carriers are robustly designed as multiple-use, in-process transportation products for the disk manufacturing process. Wafer shipping systems are used by the semiconductor industry to ship silicon wafers from wafer manufacturers to integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. companies. In 1998, the Voyager(R) wafer shipping container received Semiconductor International Magazine's Product of the Year award. Prior to joining Empak, Lemons spent nine years as vice president of sales and marketing at Knight Advanced Technologies Facilities in Phoenix, Ariz. While there, he chaired the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (IEST IEST Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology IEST Istituto Europeo per lo Sviluppo Tecnologico (Italian) IEST Inboard Electronics Study Team ) working group responsible for developing the design guidelines for cleanrooms and the IEST working group for minienvironment implementation. Lemons also represented the United States on the International Standards Organization See ISO. (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. ) committee for cleanroom design and construction, and chaired the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA NFPA National Fire Protection Association NFPA National Food Processors Association NFPA National Fluid Power Association NFPA National Federation of Paralegal Associations (Edmonds, WA) ) committee for fire protection in cleanrooms. Earlier in his career, Lemons was an engineer for Texas Instruments (TI), during which time he was responsible for the design and construction of TI's first Class 10 cleanroom. Lemons is a registered professional engineer and graduate of Texas A&M University. He holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of Dallas The University of Dallas is a Catholic institution. It seeks to educate its students to develop the intellectual and moral virtues, to prepare themselves for life and work, and to become leaders in the community. and has completed specialized studies in cleanroom aerosol mechanics from the University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher. http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. , Harvard University and the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). . ABOUT ENTEGRIS From production to consumption, Entegris manages its customers' critical materials in key technology-driven industries. Headquartered in Chaska, Minn., Entegris is a global leader providing unsurpassed customer service, innovative products and solid solutions for the management of critical materials to the semiconductor, data storage, pharmaceutical and chemical processing industries. Positioned for growth and service spanning multiple high tech disciplines, Entegris is an ISO 9001-registered firm with manufacturing facilities located in the United States, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and South Korea. Through strategic alliances with Metron Technology, Marubeni and other distributors, Entegris is pleased to offer customer support on six continents. Entegris is the result of a merger of strengths between Fluoroware and EMPAK--two of the world's most prominent materials management suppliers. |
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