De-installation, crating, transport, hook-up, commissioning and training for used and refurbished process tools, from the old cleanroom to the first wafer in yours.
We check the route, floor, facilities and cleanroom space at both ends, on site or from your drawings and photos.
We write a plan covering de-installation, crating, transport, rigging and hook-up, with dates and responsibilities.
Our engineers de-install, supervise the move and connect the tool to the facilities your contractors prepare.
We bring the tool up, run the acceptance tests and train your operators.
Safe shutdown, documented disconnection and export crating of process tools.
Learn moreRoute planning, specialist rigging and monitored transport from one cleanroom to the next.
Learn moreFacility specifications for each tool, checks on the building side and the tool-side connections.
Learn moreStaged start-up, subsystem checks and agreed acceptance tests before handover.
Learn moreHands-on training and written procedures for the people who will run and look after the tool.
Learn moreBuying a used process tool is half the job. The other half is getting it out of one cleanroom, across a border or a country, into yours, connected and producing wafers that match its specification. Most of the risk in a semiconductor equipment installation sits in that second half: a tool damaged in transport, a facility connection that does not match, a start-up that drags on because nobody has run the platform before.
We handle that work as one project, whether we supply the tool, another seller does, or it comes from another building on your campus.
Every installation starts with a survey. We look at the tool itself, the route out of the old site, the route into yours, the floor loading, the space around the tool and the facilities available at the point of use. Where a site visit is not practical we work from drawings, photos and a video walk-through.
The survey gives you a written list of what the tool needs: power, process gases, cooling water, compressed air, nitrogen, vacuum and exhaust, with sizes and connection types. Your facility team or contractors use it to prepare the building side.
The price depends on the tool size and weight, the distance, the rigging needed at each end, how much hook-up work we do and how far the commissioning goes. We quote after the survey, not before.
Each project has one move plan, agreed before anything is disconnected. It names who does what and when: our engineers, your facility team, the rigger, the transport company and, for cross-border moves, the forwarder. Dates are tied to the readiness of your facilities, so a tool does not arrive before its gas lines and exhaust are ready.
The deliverables follow the tool through the move: a survey report, a move plan, a packing list and crate photos, facility check sheets, commissioning results and training records. For tools we sell, the inspection report and refurbishment records travel with the tool, so you can compare its performance after installation with what we measured before shipment. A drift in base pressure or a weaker exposure intensity then shows up as a number, not a suspicion.
The physical move is planned by us and carried out by third-party specialists: riggers who lift and place the crates, and carriers with air-ride vehicles. We brief them, supervise loading and unloading, and read the shock and tilt indicators before any crate is opened. On the building side, your own facility team or contractors install gas, power, water and exhaust to your site standards, using the requirements sheet from our hook-up and facilities work. Once the tool is connected, staged power-up and the agreed tests in commissioning and acceptance decide when it is handed over.
Some tools need more care than others. A furnace bank arrives as several large crates and needs exhaust and cooling water ready before its first heat-up. A stepper or electron microscope is sensitive to vibration in transit and to the floor it stands on. A multi-chamber tool with toxic gases depends on gas cabinets, detection and abatement that may take months to approve. The survey names these risks for your tool before the move date is fixed.
Facility work is usually the longest part of an installation, and it is the part we do not control. Send us the tool model and your site details early, even before you commit to a purchase, and we will tell you what the building has to provide. That leaves your facility team time to plan gas lines, exhaust and power, and it shows up any blocking issue, such as a door that is too narrow, before the tool is on a truck.
No. We also move tools between your own buildings and install tools you bought elsewhere, after a survey of the tool and both sites.
Your facility team or contractors make the building-side connections to your site standards. We specify what the tool needs, check the connections and make the tool-side hook-up.
It depends on the tool and on how ready your facilities are. A tabletop tool can be running within days of delivery; a multi-chamber tool with toxic gases takes weeks, most of it in facility work.
We prepare the technical information that customs and export classification need and work with your forwarder. Our export compliance page explains the rules that can apply.
It depends on the tool size, the distance, the route at both sites and how much facility work is needed. We quote after the site survey.
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Tell us the tool and what you need. We scope the work and send a written offer.