SDI fabsurplus.com news

Closed-bid auction - Italy Warehouse Closure

24 Apr 2009 11:44:43 GMT

Due to the continued high running costs in Italy, we have decided to close our warehouse here,
so ALL OUR STOCK IN ITALY MUST GO !

Read all the information about the auction at the Closed-bid auction - Italy Warehouse Closure page

April 2009 news from SDI fabsurplus.com

8 Apr 2009 08:43:33 GMT

April '09 Message from Steve Howe, SDI-Fabsurplus CEO and owner

"Dear Friends and Clients,

Earthquake
"We wobbled about a little here in Avezzano, but , very fortunately, there was no damage to our facility and equipment as we are 50 km from the earthquake epicentre. Our thoughts , of course, are with those less lucky than ourselves.

N. America Sales Team Expansion

"Despite the severe recession that the semiconductor equipment sector is experiencing, SDI-Fabsurplus is happy to announce the expansion of our sales team in the USA effectively immediately.

"Richard Williams, based in Austin, TX, is now our North American sales manager and replaces Kevin Jin. Richard has 26 years of experience in the semiconductor sector planning capital expenditures, logistics, preparing technical RFPs and making procurement decisions for companies including Cirrus Logic and BridgePoint. He is also spearheading SDI-Fabsurplus's entry into in the Solar Cell and Panel business. Richard can be contacted as follows:-
e-mail: richard@fabsurplus.com Phone (Office): +1 512-444-9201 Phone (Mobile): +1 512-695-7864 Skype: richardw03

"Greg de Lannoy, based in Chandler, AZ, will be sharing the load of sales enquiries with Richard and the rest of the SDI-Fabsurplus sales team. Greg has 25 years experience of work in the Semiconductor Equipment sector including 10 years spent as service manager, establishing service operations for Ultratech Stepper in Taiwan, Korea and Singapore and also for Vizo Corp. amongst others.
Greg can be contacted as follows:-
e-mail: greg@fabsurplus.com Phone: +1 480-415-9185 Skype: delannoy3333

SDI-Fabsurplus Enters New Industry

"We have added a new line of products in the Renewable Energy Sector. The Renewable Energy movement has SDI excited about fresh opportunities that lie ahead for the industry as well as for our company. We are presently representing 2 Used Solar Lines for immediate sale from a world-class solar manufacturer as follows:-

30 Mega Watt Solar Cell line - Monocrystalline line
      producing 16.4 to 17.6% efficient solar cells
      Equipment vintage of 2002
      Equipment is in very good to excellent condition.
      OEM willing to re-install and offer 1 year warranty

50 Mega Watt Solar Cell line Monocrystalline line
     Producing 17% efficient solar cells
     Equipment vintage, fairly new, many tools 2008
     Equipment in very good to excellent condition
     Equipment still in clean room ready for de-installation

Sincerely, Stephen Howe (Owner)

APRIL'S FEATURED ITEMS FOR SALE FROM SDI/FABSURPLUS:

Follow this link to see the complete sales list. It does take a while to load as it includes about 7000 items at the moment :- http://www.fabsurplus.com/completelist.html

For information on the following 5 sales items, please contact Richard Williams (richard@fabsurplus.com):-

19333 ASML PAS 5500-200 Hi-productivity i-line stepper 200 mm 1998 Vintage
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=19333

23182 Canon FPA 2500 i3 steppers, 100 mm, 5 inch reticle.
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=23182

23672 Disco DAD 321 Dicing Saws 1997 Vintage
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=23672

23328 KLA 6200 Surfscan Wafer Inspection System 1999 Vintage
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=23328

21848 TEL Lithius Photoresist Coater / Developer 300 mm Vintage
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=21848

For information on the following 7 sales items, please contact Greg deLannoy (greg@fabsurplus.com):-

19044 AMAT Centura 5200 HTF EPI 8 Inch Jun 2004
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=19044

21848 Camtek Falcon 200 PDS Wafer Inspection System 1996 Vintage
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=21848

22264 Disco DFD 640 Dicing Saw 1996 Vintage
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=22264

21080 Disco DFD 6361 Dicing Saw, 200/300 mm, Jul 2007 http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=21080

21482 Karl Suss MA 200 Aligner, 200 mm, Jun 1999
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=21482

17874 KLA_Tencor Spectra FX 200, Mar 2007
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=17874

18505 Nikon NSR 2205 EX12B DUV Stepper 1999 Vintage
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=18505

For information on the following 7 sales items, please contact Stephen Howe (info@fabsurplus.com):-

22146 AGILENT 5DX X-RAY SYSTEM as new Jun 2005
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=22146

23181 Applied Materials Mirra Mesa Tungsten CMP 2008 Vintage
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=23181

22375 K and S Maxum Ultra Wire Bonders 2007 Vintage
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=22375

21345 KLA AIT 2 Fusion Surfscan Wafer Defect Inspection System 2005 Vintage
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=21345

26520 Schlumberberger IDS 10000 Plus Test System 1998 Vintage http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=26520

26514 Thermo Solaar M6 Atomic Absorption Spectrometer 2007 Vintage
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=26514

26522 Wentworth APS 80 prober 2003 Vintage
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=26522

To request information or a price quote about any of the below 4 items, please contact Ollie Dunne in Ireland ollie.dunne@fabsurplus.com:-

25471 Canon M830 Ultrasonic Image Inspection System
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=25471

25468 Hitachi S2700 SEM with EDX, 2001 Vintage
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=25468

25470 Olympus STM-UM-HD002 Measurement Microscope http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=25470

25469 Seiko SMI 8300 FIB Sem
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=25469

To request information or a price quote about any of the below items,
please contact Joseph Mazzotta in Florence joseph@fabsurplus.com:-

17817 AIS CONVEY 8 WAFER SORTER 200 MM 02/06
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=17817

11003 Applied Materials EXCITE IPM 832 BARE SILICON WAFER INSPECTION 06/00
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=11003

16433 Applied Materials Producer PECVD TWIN 06/01
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=16433

21124A Edwards iQDP 80 REFURBISHED VACUUM PUMPS 05/99
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=21124

21266 Hitachi S3000N Scanning Electron Microscope with EDX 06/04
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=21266

14807 KLA Tencor EV300 Defect Review SEM 06/00
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=14807

15493 KLA Tencor Surfscan 7700 Patterned Wafer Surface Inspection Tool 06/97
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=15493

1704 KLA-TENCOR 8100 CD-SEM 09/98
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=1704

16176 Kokusai DJ640 4-TUBE Horizontal Furnace for Anneal and HTO 06/91
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=16176

17814 LAMBDA PHYSIK Novaline K2010 LASER, EXCIMER 06/04
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=17814

5223 Perkin Elmer SIMAA 6000 AA Spectrometer with autosampler 08/95
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=5223

5225 PLASMOS SD 4000 Ellipsometer 07/93
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=5225

21146 Rigaku 3726 TXRF 06/98
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=21146

21270 TEL MB2 730HT CVD SYSTEM, 3 CH 09/96
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemDetails.do?id=21270

February 2009 Sale

11 Feb 2009 11:25:32 GMT

February 2009 Message from Steve Howe, SDI-Fabsurplus CEO and owner.

"Dear Friends and Clients,

This month we have many exciting items of equipment on sale that will grab your attention. We have so many new items on sale, that this month, we are featuring only these new items for sale that you will find on the
Fabsurplus February sale list page

The equipment includes some state of the art 300 mm equipment, a complete 300 mm wafer fab, many items of advanced assembly and test equipment and much more.

Year-End Inventory Clearance Sale

10 Dec 2008 16:29:17 GMT

the auction is now over. Check the current clearance sale at this page.

Special Fabsurplus.com Assembly and Test equipment clearance

25 Nov 2008 10:22:18 GMT

Exclusively and on behalf of our European based clients, SDI-Fabsurplus Group is pleased to announce the following late model assembly and test equipment facility sale, including K and S Maxum bonders, Advantest test systems , Disco dicing saws and other state of the art assembly and test equipment.
This is the liquidation of a complete facility. All equipment must go.
Please browse each line item for further details. All equipment is undergoing de-installation, and will be warehoused.
Inspections are welcome by appointment.
Equipment ages from 1995 to May 2008. Please refer to the list at
http://www.fabsurplus.com/sdi_catalog/salesItemList.do?listTypeId=46
for details of individual items.

October news from SDI CEO

28 Oct 2008 22:40:14 GMT

"Dear Friends and Clients,

Have you considered used equipment as a cost-reduction solution ?
The low cost of used equipment allows you to squeeze that much-needed equipment purchase into your maintenance budget and boost capacity even in a downturn to overtake your competitors.
At Fabsurplus.com, we can offer systems from KLA and Nikon (And other OEMs) completely refurbished and guaranteed functional to OEM specs as well as tools suitable for parts harvesting, allowing you to pick up high dollar items like robots for a fraction of the OEM price.
Right now, "cash is king" so if you want to turn you equipment into cash flow, please send us a list and we will remarket it completely free of charge. We are also experienced in running auctions.
Fabsurplus.com is also excited to announce that we have become representatives in Europe for "Glow Research" plasma surface treatment solutions.
These extremely cost-effective, benchtop, compact gas plasma treatment systems are ideal for R&D applications where a safe and reliable plasma source is needed for cleaning, surface modification and sterilization.
For more information, visit the AutoGlow page on our website.

Sincerely,
Stephen Howe (Owner) "

Fabsurplus.com Warehouse Clearance by Auction

24 Sep 2008 18:16:24 GMT

20 Sep 08.
Fabsurplus.com Warehouse Clearance by Auction

Following recent large scale purchases, we need to free up some warehouse space.
Hence, we are liquidating our inventory in our warehouses in Italy and Ireland.
Please visit the sale web page and contact info@fabsurplus.com or ollie.dunne@fabsurplus.com to receive further information.

SDI/FABSURPLUS NEWS JULY 2008

8 Jul 2008 14:59:42 GMT

03 Jul 08.

July 2008 Message from Steve Howe, SDI-Fabsurplus CEO and owner.

"Dear Friends and Clients, we have a new sales representative in the USA. Kevin Jin is located in the greater Los Angeles area, all his contact details are available in the contacts page.

"This month, we have some great equipment bargains for you to consider, including an ASML /300 priced to move, ASML /200, Nikon i10s and a low-priced Nikon S204B set up for 300 mm.

"We picked up a large quantity of new 200 mm wafer transport boxes last month, which we feel are a great purchasing opportunity for our clients.

"We are also looking for a number of advanced I-Line and DUV lithography systems.

"SDI-Fabsurplus representatives will be walking the show at "Semicon West 2008". For those of you attending the show, please contact us now to fix an appointment with one of our sales executives.

Best wishes and I look forward to meeting you all soon at the show."

Sincerely, Stephen Howe (Owner)

SDI/FABSURPLUS NEWS JUNE 2008

4 Jun 2008 10:59:03 GMT

June 2008 Message from Steve Howe, SDI-Fabsurplus CEO and owner
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"Dear Friends and Clients,

"I'm currently in San Antonio, Texas touring our worldwide network of offices and agents, and will be continuing on an equipment sourcing trip to personally source-inspect more quality used equipment for re-sale via our market place at www.fabsurplus.com. After 10 years in the business, I never get tired of searching for the best equipment deals to offer our many clients.

"This month, SDI-Fabsurplus has expanded its network of sales agents to include Joseph Mazzotta, who has been appointed EMEA Sales manager. Joseph is based in Florence, Italy and can be e-mailed at joseph@fabsurplus.com.

"SDI-Fabsurplus is continuing improvements to our website functionality, managed by our newly-appointed software development manager, Antonio Negrini, formally of Microsoft Corp., who is coordinating development of our SDI "DataNET" equipment re-marketing software.

"If you want to help Antonio, your suggestions and feedback on how we can improve our services and help you to buy Semiconductor Manufacturing and related equipment would be most welcome. Please send you comments and suggestions via e-mail to anegrini@fabsurplus.com

"Through our "Partnership to Purchase" initiative , SDI-Fabsurplus now offers the possibility to forward-finance equipment purchases up to the $1M USD level to those of our clients who can place non-refundable deposits, and we are especially interested in attracting business with clients needing regularly repeated financing at the $100,000 USD level.

"SDI-Fabsurplus representatives will be walking the show at "Semicon West 2008". For those of you attending the show, please contact us now to fix an appointment with one of our sales executives to discuss this innovative new way to finance your capital equipment purchases.

Best wishes and I look forward to hearing from you all soon."

Sincerely, Stephen Howe (Owner)

FABSURPLUS.COM Announces In-House Enhanced Re-Manufacturing of Advanced Nikon Silicon Wafer Photolithography Step and Scan Equipment

21 Apr 2008 15:43:15 GMT

FABSURPLUS.COM Announces In-House Enhanced Re-Manufacturing of Advanced Nikon Silicon Wafer Photolithography Step and Scan Equipment.
Apr 21 update:You can look at more information and pictures about the refurbishment here:
Refurbishing a Nikon Stepper: A SDI Fabsurplus.com Success Story

SDI-Fabsurplus announced a new independent service of Nikon Stepper refurbishment targeted at customers wishing to acquire remanufactured, fully-demonstrated, advanced lithography systems manufactured by Nikon Inc.
Stephen Howe, CEO of SDI-Fabsurplus, said, "We have completed the first stage of our project and successfully demonstrated lithography in-house at 0.4 um on a Nikon i7A stepper, designed only to achieve 0.5 um, providing enhanced capabilities on top of a state-of-the-art refurbishment.
Our success was achieved following months of careful preparation for the project, including setting up an advanced refurbishment centre and selecting the finest 3rd-party service engineers to carry out the work.
We have adopted Japanese work-practices in over-specifying performance parameters where possible to constantly improve our final results."
"This new achievement complements our established refurbishment capabilities for KLA-Tencor inspection equipment, Hitachi SEMs, Varian Implanters and Gasonics L3510 Ashers," Howe said.
"SDI-Fabsurplus can now offer full support for enhancement, removal, refurbishment, installation and demonstration of Nikon steppers of i-line models up to i14 and earlier DUV systems. All systems can be demonstrated at SDI-Fabsurplus's new refurbishment facility and cleanroom located at Avezzano, near Rome, Italy.
Our Avezzano Tech centre includes 800 mq of warehouse space, temperature controlled storage areas and a class 10 cleanroom." "We hope that our latest technical achievement will effectively demonstrate to the market that SDI-Fabsurplus is not only one of the largest multinational semiconductor equipment brokerages, but also has an in-depth understanding of the products bought and sold.
Now that we have substantial venture capital backing we are ready to take on ever more large-scale projects in response to the market." "We see ourselves filling a market segment that will cater for some of the clients currently not satisfied with the level of flexibility and quality in support offered by Nikon, not to mention the obvious cost-savings we can offer over Nikon pricing due to our low overheads." "SDI will continue to invest for future growth in high-technology techniques in lithography, inspection and software development to provide better, more attractive products for our clients."

A press release for the above announcement is available on PRWEB
visit www.fabsurplus.com - your marketplace for used semiconductor equipment

new website layout launched

23 Mar 2008 13:37:04 GMT

SDI fabsurplus.com has renewed its website with a W3C/CSS standards compliant interface, compatible with all current browsers.

SDI at SEMICON Europa

20 Sep 2007 13:37:30 GMT

SDI Group will be exhibiting at SEMICON Europa, Stuttgart Trade Fair, 9-11 Oct 2007, Booth 2400. Book your appointment NOW with our sales team.

new database location

20 Sep 2007 13:37:32 GMT

SDI's equipment database has been transferred to a secure server in Germany to improve site reliability and data storage security. Software improvements are continuing and will be implemented by our in-house software development team on a rolling basis through the following months.

Major sale of items of 4 inch semiconductor manufacturing equipmen

20 Aug 2007 13:37:32 GMT

Randall Copeland of SDI Oregon has completed a major sale of multiple items of 4 inch semiconductor manufacturing equipment from our client's site in Finland.

purchase of Varian E500HP implanter completed

1 Aug 2007 13:37:33 GMT

Ollie Dunne of SDI Ireland has completed purchase of a Varian E500HP implanter from our European based client for a 6 figure dollar amount.Click HERE to see photos of our staff taking delivery of the Varian E500HP equipment.

refurbished KLA_Tencor AIT wafer installation complete

2 May 2007 13:37:33 GMT

Stephen Howe of SDI Italy has completed installation of a refurbished KLA_Tencor AIT wafer inspection system at our European based client's 6 inch facility on time and within budget.