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Melrose Park, Ill. In March, the com- Seiki’s warehouse in Dallas), training markets have helped a New Hampshire
pany announced that it will move its and engineering support. laser systems company make large fi- Illinois and China operations to its new nancial strides, despite the recession. 307,813-sq.-ft. headquarters facility ■ Laser micromachining “We had about 30 percent growth in the Chicago suburb of Aurora. The last year,” said Charlie Cuneo, presi-.
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laser-based systems for LEDs,” Cuneo JPSA’s proprietary PV-5000 laser scrib- January ’10, an increase consistent with said. One of the systems, called laser ing system enables manufacturers to advances posted during the same period liftoff, involves using an excimer “to scribe thin-film panels into a multitude the previous 2 years, according to the.
manufacturing. “We offer two types of For the growing solar panel market, rose 2 percent from December ’09 to laser-based systems for LEDs,” Cuneo JPSA’s proprietary PV-5000 laser scrib- January ’10, an increase consistent with said. One of the systems, called laser ing system enables manufacturers to advances posted during the same period liftoff, involves using an excimer “to scribe thin-film panels into a multitude the previous 2 years, according to the separate and lift LED devices from the of smaller solar cells at a rate of 12 me- United States Cutting Tool Institute. sapphire substrates on which they’re ters per second. From December ’08 to January ’09, grown,” he said. “And we also provide “We serve a pretty diverse set of mar- sales were up 1.1 percent; from De- laser technology that allows our cus- kets, and that has helped us in this re- cember ’07 to January ’08, they shot up
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