Ultra Clean to Expand Manufacturing Services to Orbotech in China

Ultra Clean Holdings Inc announced that it has entered into an agreement with Orbotech Ltd under which it will provide manufacturing services to Orbotech at one of Ultra Clean's two facilities in Shanghai. Ultra Clean Microelectronics Equipment Co Ltd (UCME), a subsidiary of UCTT, will assemble products from Orbotech's Supervision range of high speed automated optical inspection (AOI) systems for applications in the manufacture of flat panel display products. UCME already provides manufacturing services to Orbotech for its Array Checker flat panel display test systems and this latest agreement will significantly extend both the scope and scale of Ultra Clean's support of the Orbotech Group in China.

Ultra Clean is a developer and supplier of critical subsystems for the semiconductor capital equipment, flat panel, energy, and medical device industries. Orbotech is a designer, developer and manufacturer of yield-enhancing and production solutions for specialized applications in automated optical inspection (AOI), production and process control systems for printed circuit boards (PCBs); and AOI, test and repair systems for flat panel displays (FPDs).

"Ultra Clean has become an important manufacturing partner to Orbotech in our China operations. By providing ongoing--and now extended--exceptional technical support, project management and turnkey manufacturing capabilities, Ultra Clean has enabled Orbotech to meet the increasingly demanding needs and expectations of our customers in Asia, and we look forward to its continuing to do so" said Reuven Losh, Orbotech's Corporate Vice President and Co-President for Operations.

"We appreciate the continued trust that Orbotech has shown in Ultra Clean through this latest agreement and are very excited to be expanding our role as one of its outsource manufacturing partners in this rapidly growing market," said Clarence Granger, Ultra Clean's Chairman and CEO. David Savage, Ultra Clean's President and COO added "the systems we now build for Orbotech at UCME fit ideally with Ultra Clean's core capabilities in assembly and test of highly complex, electromechanical equipment and with our strategic goal to partner with industry leading companies in high technology markets."

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