Aixtron establishes new company AIXTRON KK in Japan
Aachen, Germany and Tokyo, Japan. AIXTRON is happy to announce the opening of AIXTRON KK Japan in Tokyo. Together with its partner Moritani, AIXTRON KK will offer to its broad base of Japanese customers an even more comprehensive service, local spare parts supply and process support for the AIXTRON product group including the Thomas Swan and Epigress MOCVD systems. AIXTRON KK will be headed by Dr. Frank Schulte and Mr. Masayuki Satoh, together having more than 20 years combined working experience in the Japanese MOCVD community. Future sales of AIXTRON MOCVD Systems will continue to be handled by Moritani with the technical support of AIXTRON KK.
Dr. Holger Juergensen, President of the AIXTRON group comments: "The establishment of this new sales and service center is part of AIXTRON s strategy to continually expand its Network of AIXcellence, offering customers a fast, reliable and high quality local service, essential for continuing the company s revenue growth in Japan. This compliments AIXTRON s effort to increase its spare parts stocks in its Service Centers in Europe, USA, Taiwan, and Korea. In total, the company has recently invested over US$ 1 million to increase stock to its present level".
Superior technology and established customer relations has led to AIXTRON occupying a leading position in Japan. Customers will be served by a team of specialized service engineers possessing vast expertise in AIXTRON systems. The convenient location of the company will also help AIXTRON and Moritani to provide the best support to it s customers. Dr. Frank Schulte and Mr. Masayuki Satoh are proud of their highly motivated and skilled team, the excellent team work with Moritani and the powerful backup provided by the AIXTRON headquarters.
As the leading supplier of MOCVD equipment and with an installed base of well over 600 systems worldwide AIXTRON is represented in over 15 countries.
The company provides an extensive service and support network for maintenance as well as upgrading of systems. Due to its high level of customer service worldwide, AIXTRON has been rated once more among the 2001 10 BEST in its category in VLSI Research Inc s Customer Satisfaction Survey. In addition AIXTRON s close and reliable partnership with its stakeholders (e.g customers, suppliers, inventors) is reflected in the inclusion of AIXTRON shares into the Dow Jones Sustainability Index World. AIXTRON s many customers include Agere, Alcatel, Anritsu, ATMI, Avalon, AXT, Epson, Honeywell, IQE, JDS-Uniphase, ITT, Kopin, LumiLeds, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Nortel, Optospeed, Osram, Showa Denko, Samsung, Sumitomo, Thales, UEC, VPEC as well as numerous Japanese corporations. AIXTRON systems have also been installed in the most renowned research institutes worldwide, including CNRS, Fraunhofer Institute, ITRI-OES, JPL, Meijo University, Research Center Jülich, RIKEN, Sandia Nat. Lab, University of Tokyo. AIXTRON is very active in advancing MOCVD technology through collaborations and joint R&D projects with major partners worldwide.
Contact: Dr. Frank Schulte, Masayuki Satoh at Aixtron KK Tanaka-Yaesu Bldg. 5F Chuo-Ku, Tokyo 103-0028, Japan Tel: +81-3-3516-8764, -8777 Fax: +81-3-3516-8772 F.Schulte@aixtron.com or M.Satoh@aixtron.com or Dr. Claus Ehrenbeck Head of Inv. Relations and Corp. Communications Tel: +49-241-8909-444 C.Ehrenbeck@aixtron.com
Dr. Frank Schulte, Masayuki Satoh at Aixtron KKTanaka-Yaesu Bldg. 5F
Chuo-Ku, Tokyo
103-0028, Japan
Tel: +81-3-3516-8764, -8777
Fax: +81-3-3516-8772
F.Schulte@aixtron.com or M.Satoh@aixtron.com
or
Dr. Claus Ehrenbeck
Head of Inv. Relations and Corp. Communications
Tel: +49-241-8909-444
C.Ehrenbeck@aixtron.com
E-mail: C.Ehrenbeck@aixtron.com
