17 million euros for cleanrooms

Imtech N.V. the European technical service provider has recently won two orders in the market for cleanrooms. At the request of the German construction company Züblin, Imtech will handle the building technology and the cleanroom technology in a new pharmaceutical factory to be built for Altana Pharma near Cork in Ireland. Imtech has also received an order for part of the building technology and the cleanroom technology in a new Siltronic production site in Freiberg. The total value of both orders is around e17 million. Imtech has its own competence centre in Stuttgart for cleanroom technology that serves both the semiconductor industry and, increasingly, the pharmaceutical industry. In the new Altana factory, which will go into production in mid 2006, the bulk production of Altana's medicines Pantoprazol and Roflumilast will take place. Imtech will provide complete air conditioning and climate technology (including the heating and cooling of the complex purified water system), cleanroom technology, electrical solutions and the building management system. For the production site in Freiberg, Imtech will supply part of the building technology and the cleanroom technology. In this new factory mass production of specialised 300mm wafers for the semiconductor industry will take place. These wafers are used as semiconductors in the electronics and telecommunications industry. Imtech is responsible for the engineering and installation of 18 chemical systems. The new Siltronics factory is due to go into production in 2004. Imtech is a European technical service provider in the field of information and communication technology and electrical and mechanical engineering.

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