近日，位于新加坡的Applied Materials亚洲运营中心奠基，新加坡经济开发部主席Lim Siong Guan、Applied Materials高管和美国大使Patricia Herbold参加了奠基仪式。该中心位于Changi North Industrial Park，预计将在2009年落成，同时该中心的建筑将符合全球最高的建筑标准。Applied Materials还在典礼上宣布了一项创新教育计划。
“新加坡连接了中国和印度，其发达的交通和物流网络、充分的供应商基础以及优质的人才资源使其成为理想的商业地。”Applied Materials总裁兼CEO Mike Splinter说道。
该运营中心将成为全球采购、销售、制造、工程和财务基地，以支持亚洲地区的芯片产业以及中国和印度快速发展的太阳能市场。
“Applied Materials在复杂纳米制造技术领域中是先驱。”Lim Siong Guan说道。“我们非常高兴新加坡被Applied Materials选中作为亚洲运营中心。”
SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- At a ceremony today, Economic Development Board Chairman Lim Siong Guan, Applied Materials executives, and U.S. Ambassador Patricia Herbold broke ground for the construction of a new Singapore operations facility that will serve as a hub for Applied’s business activities throughout Asia. The 32,000 square meter facility in the Changi North Industrial Park is expected to be completed in late 2009 and will be designed to meet some of the highest green building standards in the world. Applied also announced an innovative education initiative at the event.
“Sitting at a virtual crossroads between India and China, Singapore has proven to be a friendly and great place to do business with its strong transportation and logistics network, extensive supplier base and talented workforce,” said Mike Splinter, president and CEO of Applied Materials.
“Our state-of-the-art campus will showcase our commitment to the environment while bringing enhanced capabilities closer to our customers throughout Asia.”
The Operations Center will be a base for global purchasing, sales, manufacturing, engineering and financial groups to support the Asia region chip industry and the rapidly growing solar markets in India and China. New operations will help achieve reductions in material cost and cycle time while expanding Applied’s merge-in-transit and global supply chain capabilities. Employees will also continue to support Singapore’s strong chip manufacturing industry. The facility is designed to standards aimed at earning BCA Green Mark Platinum certification, the highest environmental rating for a building in Singapore. Current plans include an installation of what will likely be the largest commercial solar array deployed in Singapore, low-e glass curtain walls, LED and fluorescent lighting, an energy efficient air conditioning system and a sophisticated water treatment and rainwater capture system. The site will also incorporate extensive native landscaping. Applied has served customers from locations in Singapore for 17 years and currently has approximately 400 employees in the country.
"Applied Materials is an industry leader in complex nanomanufacturing technology,” said Mr. Lim Siong Guan, Chairman of the Singapore Economic Development Board. “We are pleased that Singapore has been chosen as its world-class complex equipment manufacturing hub for its Asia Operations Center."
As part of its global commitment to education and improving communities where it does business, Applied also announced its sponsorship of the Environment Education Hub at the Marsiling Secondary School. Through its sponsorship, Applied will help create a secondary school platform for teaching and learning about environmental issues concerning energy and water.
Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT) is the global leader in Nanomanufacturing Technology 逐泉 solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, services and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat panel displays, solar photovoltaic cells, flexible electronics and energy efficient glass. At Applied Materials, we apply Nanomanufacturing Technology to improve the way people live. Learn more at www.appliedmaterials.com.
