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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
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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.