Semitool
# Semitool

Semitool was a semiconductor manufacturing/capital equipment company based in Kalispell, Montana.

## History

The company designed, developed, manufactured high performance and precision chemical processing equipment. Products included electrochemical deposition systems for electroplating copper, gold, solder and other metals; surface preparation systems for cleaning, stripping and etching silicon wafers; and wafer transport container cleaning systems.

Their main competitors were the Austrian company SEZ, Solid State Equipment Corp. (SSEC), and American FSI International.

## Applied Materials

In 2009, Semitool was acquired by Applied Materials. It operates Semitool as a business unit and still operates the facility in Kalispell.

