The international engineering company M+W
Zander has been awarded a contract for approximately 550 million Euro from
GLOBALFOUNDRIES, the world's first truly global leading-edge semiconductor
manufacturing company, to engineer and construct its new semiconductor wafer
facility 'Fab 2'. The construction site is located at the Luther
Forest Technology Campus in Saratoga County, New York. Fab 2 is expected to
be the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing 'Foundry' in the
world. The facility will initially produce 300-millimeter-wafers at the 28-nanometer
node for a variety of clients.
The order for M+W Zander provides a full 'turnkey' solution for
the construction of the facility. As such, M+W Zander is providing full architectural
and engineering services, construction management for the entire project as
well as general contracting for all of the technical areas to include the manufacturing
spaces, building utilities, central utility building and process systems.
The Fab 2 complex will consist of four major buildings totalling more than
130,000 square meters (1.45 million square feet), including a 28,000 square
meters (300,000 square feet) Class 100 clean room wafer fabrication building,
a “spine” support building, an administrative office building and
a central utility building (CUB) along with service yards and small support
buildings.
Construction is expected to take about two years to complete, and 12 to 18
months to ramp to full operating mode. Initial production is expected to begin
in 2012.
“This new major order strengthens our global leadership as the engineering
and construction partner for the semiconductor industry”, said Jürgen
Wild, CEO of M+W Zander Group. Rick Whitney, president of M+W Zander in the
U.S. added: “We appreciate the confidence GLOBALFOUNDRIES has shown in
M+W Zander. We are looking forward to designing and building a globally competitive
foundry manufacturing facility in the upstate New York area.”
Posted October 13th, 2009
