Mar 27 2010
Camtek Ltd. (NASDAQ: CAMT ; TASE: CAMT) ("Camtek" or the "Company"), today announced the signing of an exclusive distribution rights agreement with Canon Marketing Japan Inc. ("Canon MJ") for sales of Camtek's Automatic Optical Inspection ("AOI") systems, that address the semiconductor market in Japan.
Gannet AOI System
Canon Marketing Japan is a leading provider of a wide variety of solutions to the Japanese Semiconductor industry with a very strong market position and support organization specializing in high end complex equipment. The Company believes its variety of Yield Enhancing solutions will fit and compliment the Canon MJ product line.
"We are very pleased and proud of our cooperation with Canon, a world leading company in the semiconductor industry," said Mr. Aharon Sela, President Camtek Asia. " This strategic cooperation is the beginning of a long term partnership that will enhance our current activity in Japan and will enable us to penetrate to new market segments such as Memory products, LED, CIS, 3-D integration, MEMS, Compound Semiconductor and automotive IC in Japan and will allow us to provide our advanced AOI solutions both for the front-end (Gannet product line) and the back-end (Falcon product line), backed up by Canon MJ's outstanding pre- and post-sales support."
Mr.Kunio Kurihara,Director Canon Marketing Japan Inc. "By concluding this distribution agreement with Camtek, Canon MJ adds to its line-up wafer inspection systems that can be used in a wide range of semiconductor front-end and back-end applications.
Through our cooperation with Camtek, we will aggressively deploy these systems to meet the needs of customers in Japan. Furthermore, based on Camtek's rich installation base overseas, we have high expectations for this product line."