INNOViON Announces Sales Agency Agreement for Europe

December 07, 2007 - San Jose, CA

INNOViON Corporation, a provider of foundry ion implant services for the micro-electronics industry, announced today that it has signed a Sales Agency Agreement with SMART Implant Technologies, Ltd to represent INNOViON's business interests in Europe.


Steven Swanson, INNOViON Vice President Sales, commented, "As the largest implant service provider worldwide with a particularly dominant position in the U.S., we feel that some of our future growth must come from other regions. We believe that our partnership with SMART will bring an improved access and better awareness of INNOViON within Europe and the broad capabilities we have to offer to that region."

Franck POUCH, CEO of SMART IMPLANT Ltd, added, "The partnership with INNOViON for Europe is a unique opportunity for the local demand to have access to the largest range of top quality services and research capabilities."


About INNOViON

INNOViON is the leading global provider of foundry ion implantation support and service to the microelectronic industry. Formed in 2001, INNOViON represents a combination of two industry leaders (Implant Center, Inc. and Ion Implant Services, Inc.), with over 25 years of experience in this specialized technology segment. INNOViON has three regional production facilities located in San Jose, CA, Gresham, OR, and Chandler, AZ. All facilities operate 7 days per week and are equipped with a broad range of tooling supporting both standard and specialty implants in diameter ranges of 2" through 200mm. All sites also offer a full range of Fab Service support, including ion source and subassembly rebuilds and miscellaneous parts cleaning for all implanter models. INNOViON is a privately-held corporation and is headquartered at 2121 Zanker Road, San Jose, California. More information about INNOViON is available on line at www.innovioncorp.com.

About SMART


Originally issued from AEA Technology, Ion acceleration was developed at Harwell, England during Isotope separation research period. The associated department has been a major contribution to the semiconductor ion implantation since the early 1960s. Significant achievements have included: the development of the 'Freeman Ion Source', Design and licensing of the world's first semiconductor production implanter, World's first 'Ion Implantation Service' to industry established at Harwell, England.

The present Foundry was opened in May 2001 and transferred to SMART in 2005. With a blend of medium and high current, batch and serial implanters interfaced into a purpose built clean room, SMART delivers a very flexible, low cost, high quality production and development implant service to manufacturers across Europe.

SMART is owned by a larger group of companies specialized in services to the industries and Semiconductor in particular. With Several bases in Europe and an equipment manufacture centre in France this Service group is engaged in several development projects. More information about SMART is available on line at www.smart-implant.com or by contacting directly us on sales@smart-implant.com