Double record: largest cleanroom project completed in the shortest time
Imagine a combined area of 16 football pitches – and all that space subjected to clean room specifications, and then you at least have some idea of the significance of this project. Within 12 months we had constructed 133,000 sq.m. of clean room space for our client AU Optronics in Taichung (Taiwan), producers of the most up-to-date flat screens.
This is a new superlative in our company history. By comparison: The clean room surface area of AMD’s new Fab 36 ion Dresden amounts to 13,000 sq.m.
Just 12 months after the spade cut, the first processing appliances were able to be connected. In August 2004, the delivery of the most up-to-date Sputtering system (cathode atomizer plant) saw the commencement of the hook up phase.
The transportation of the installation necessitated the deployment of the world’s largest heavy-duty transport plane, the Antonov AN-225. Yet another record – for which, admittedly, we cannot take credit. Assembled, the entire Sputtering installation has a dimension of 40 x 10 meters and is custom-built for the production of glass substrates for AU Optronics.
The 133,000 square meters of clean room surface area are distributed over three levels, each commanding over 40,000 sq.m. of processing and process support areas.
M+W Zander is responsible for the planning and construction of the entire clean room installation. In the Fab to be erected in the Science Parc in Taichung, AU Optronics will produce flat screens for large format TV appliances. Mass production is scheduled to commence in the second quarter of 2005.
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