07.23.15
Kateeva has relocated its global headquarters to Newark in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company has completed the move to a 75,342 square foot facility in the East Bay city. With more than twice the square footage of its previous location in Menlo Park, Kateeva has consolidated its business and manufacturing operations under one roof.
The move comes as the company ramps up production of the YIELDjet platform – a precision deposition technology platform that uses innovative inkjet printing as a manufacturing equipment solution. The new location provides capacity to build the complex equipment used by global customers to mass-produce flexible and large-size OLED displays, among other products. The new address is: 7015 Gateway Boulevard, Newark, California 94560.
Also today, Kateeva announced the addition of two new operations experts to drive the company’s manufacturing ramp-up. Shoichi (Sho) Ota joins as SVP of operations, and Torsten Borchers joins as VP of manufacturing. Both are veteran executives of the semiconductor equipment industry.
The move boosts Kateeva’s operations as it shifts fast into volume production, said Dr. Conor Madigan, the company’s president and co-founder.
“Relocations are seldom easy, but we’ve hardly missed a beat as we cater first to customers’ needs,” Madigan said. “The process was made easier by Sho and Torsten, who hit the ground running and embraced their new opportunity with great enthusiasm.”
Ota joins Kateeva from Bruker Nano Surface, where he drove manufacturing engineering processes. Before Bruker, he was at Molecular Imprints, leading the company’s manufacturing growth strategy and supply-chain development, as well as production and customer service operations. He spent nearly 20 years at Applied Materials, first as a manufacturing manager, then as chief engineer and director of manufacturing engineering. He began his career at Japan Energy as a project manager and engineering supervisor.
Borchers joins Kateeva from Aixtron, where he spent more than a decade, most recently as director of engineering. Before Aixtron, he was a senior engineering manager at KLA-Tencor. He also worked at Novellus Systems and Thermo Finnigan.
The move comes as the company ramps up production of the YIELDjet platform – a precision deposition technology platform that uses innovative inkjet printing as a manufacturing equipment solution. The new location provides capacity to build the complex equipment used by global customers to mass-produce flexible and large-size OLED displays, among other products. The new address is: 7015 Gateway Boulevard, Newark, California 94560.
Also today, Kateeva announced the addition of two new operations experts to drive the company’s manufacturing ramp-up. Shoichi (Sho) Ota joins as SVP of operations, and Torsten Borchers joins as VP of manufacturing. Both are veteran executives of the semiconductor equipment industry.
The move boosts Kateeva’s operations as it shifts fast into volume production, said Dr. Conor Madigan, the company’s president and co-founder.
“Relocations are seldom easy, but we’ve hardly missed a beat as we cater first to customers’ needs,” Madigan said. “The process was made easier by Sho and Torsten, who hit the ground running and embraced their new opportunity with great enthusiasm.”
Ota joins Kateeva from Bruker Nano Surface, where he drove manufacturing engineering processes. Before Bruker, he was at Molecular Imprints, leading the company’s manufacturing growth strategy and supply-chain development, as well as production and customer service operations. He spent nearly 20 years at Applied Materials, first as a manufacturing manager, then as chief engineer and director of manufacturing engineering. He began his career at Japan Energy as a project manager and engineering supervisor.
Borchers joins Kateeva from Aixtron, where he spent more than a decade, most recently as director of engineering. Before Aixtron, he was a senior engineering manager at KLA-Tencor. He also worked at Novellus Systems and Thermo Finnigan.