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May 2008 -
SFTech received "2007 Supplier Award" from SUMCO for its delivery of 300-mm silicon wafer manufacturing equipment. The company took all possible measures to comply with the customer needs in design, manufacture and delivery of the equipment. SFTech is proud of completing the delivery of equipment of consistent quality and performance backed up by its stringent inspection and quality control systems.
The customer is expected to continue high-level of wafer production, and SFTech is committed to being the main supplier of the wafer manufacturing equipment to SUMCO.
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May 2008 -
SFTech received "2007 Second Semester Best Supplier Award" from NEC for its delivery of fiber-optic submarine cable repeater parts. The number of projects for laying fiber-optic submarine cable hit a peak in 2000 and continued decreasing until 2007 when it turned upward to support rapidly increasing communication traffic on the Internet. In 2007 NEC received orders for laying about 20,000-km submarine cables in major transpacific projects including TPE (Trans Pacific Express) and AAG (Asia America Gateway).
Many pieces of submarine repeaters were to be needed to complete these projects, and SFTech received orders from NEC for manufacturing casings and other components of the repeaters, which required precision machining technology. SFTech took all possible measures to comply with the customer needs in manufacture and delivery of the components for over 12 months. SFTech is proud of completing the delivery of components of consistent quality backed up by its stringent inspection system.
It is expected that the number of projects for laying fiber-optic submarine cable continue to be high in 2008 and beyond. SFTech is committed to being the main supplier of the fiber-optic submarine cable repeater parts to NEC.
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| Submarine Repeater | Laying fiber-optic submarine cable | |
| | Photos: Courtesy of NEC |
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March 2008 -
SFTech is certified according to the environmental management system ISO14001:2004 (Registration No. JQA-EM6057) after being certified in 1995 according to the quality management system ISO9001 (Registration No. JQA-0778). SFTech will continue reducing environmental load associated with its business activities and make efforts to create "environment-friendly quality products".
Corporate Philosophy
SFTech aims at "a company highly regarded in the society" in such a way that recognizing global environment as the most important issue common to all mankind, each of all employees understands the causal relationship between business activities and environmental preservation, put effort into reduction and improvement of environmental load through business activities, thus ensures preservation of the environment.
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December 2007 -
SFTech exhibits its inovative technologies at SEMICON Japan 2007 held at Makuhari Messe, Japan from December 5 to 7, 2007. SFTech put sapphire wafer polishing business on stream targetting LED (light-emmitting diode) market where the demand for LEDs for LCD (liquid crystal display) backlights and automotive headlights is rapidly increasing. The company is also conducting operating experiments of newly developed precision polishing machines for LCD photomask substrate polishing. The exhibits of this year will focus on these area.
Sapphire ingot and wafers
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GFRP carrier |
Major Exhibits
• Sapphire wafers for LED use
• SiC (Silicon Carbide) wafer polishing technology
• Polishing machine for LCD photomask substrate
• Wafer reclamation business (Silicon, Sapphire, etc.)
• Polishing effluent treatment system
• Glass epoxy carrier for polishing
• Multi-crystal silicon ingot manufacturing equipment for PV application
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June
2006 -
The company has altered its trade name from Kashiwara Machine
Mfg., Co., Ltd. to Sumitomo Metal Fine Technology Co., Ltd. (SF
Tech) effective June 1, 2006. It has been developing the business
in the field of equipment manufacturing and component machining
since its establishment in 1945 as a branch of Copper Works of
Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.
The company has recently focused on growing high-tech semiconductor
domain and substrate material manufacturing domain as the third
core business area following up equipment manufacturing business
and component machining business.
Taking the opportunity of saluting the 60th anniversary, the company
decided to alter the trade name aspiring for further expansion
of business field and growth taking advantage of accumulated technology
basis.
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November
2005 -
SF Tech acquired 2005 Nikkei “Monozukuri” (Manufacturing
Technology) Award from Nihon Keizai Shimbun Inc. The award was
first set up in 2004 to be given to manufacturing business establishments
that contributed society through improvement of productivity, operation
efficiency, environment-conscious or work environment by adopting
the most advanced technologies to unique business structure. Ten
business establishments got commendations in 2005. SF Tech applied
for the award on ground of its core competence, cutting-edge polishing
business. Adjudicators’ evaluation about SF Tech was that
the company’s strategy to become aware of its own strength
and capitalized on its strengths deserved the award.
SF Tech’s Advanced Polishing Center specializes in the following
businesses developed by the combination of its own polishing machine
manufacturing technology and accumulated polishing know-how:
• Thin metal (titanium, nickel, etc.) wafer polishing
to nano-level flatness
• Resin carrier precision polishing for use in polishing
machines
• Quartz glass wafer and photo mask substrate polishing
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