HENSOLDT EXPANDS PRODUCTION AREA FOR HIGH-PRECISION MEASURING DEVICES

In order to accommodate the growing civilian business in the area of subcontracting for the market leader of EUV machines for the production of semiconductors from the Netherlands, the space for the production of Final Focus Metrology (FFM for short) units has been doubled. Since the current space situation does not allow for further expansion, it was possible to fall back on an area in the immediate vicinity at the company YG-1 Technology Center.

The partnership has also opened up future-oriented business areas for the YG-1 Technology Center. With a wide variety of components in terms of production structures and materials, innovative tooling technologies and concepts can be developed and tested and produced directly in prototype manufacturing on the new machines in the in-house test centre. "This allows us to make further investments and establish ourselves in new market segments," says Heiko Schild, CTO & Vice President at YG-1 Technology Center GmbH.

With the help of the expansion, HENSOLDT will be able to increase the production of the FFM unit by 20 per cent, and in the following year, it will be another twelve per cent. Overall, the customer of the FFM units is planning a 30 per cent increase over the next five years. As a result, HENSOLDT also expects to recruit more skilled workers in the optics and optronics sectors.

In March, HENSOLDT recorded a milestone with the delivery of the 333rd FFM for the chip industry. Since 2012, these control systems have been produced at HENSOLDT Optronics in Oberkochen and continuously developed further.