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New tools will enable high volume sapphire material inspection, improve yields and lower cost for LED and cover screen applications
In addition, the inspection tools allow full material tracking by linking inspection data with slab and brick layout to downstream computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools. The tools are expected to benefit today's LED manufacturing industry and also help enable high volume, cost-sensitive applications such as cover screen material for mobile and touch screen devices. Terms of the agreement have not been released.
"Intego is a recognized leader in vision systems and material inspection
in a number of industries and we are pleased to be working with them to
bring automated sapphire inspection tools to market," said
The SIRIUS sapphire inspection tool was developed by Intego in
collaboration with GT's engineering team utilizing the capabilities of
GT's sapphire R&D facility in
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Company's future expectations, plans and prospects for its business and
industry that constitute "forward-looking statements" for the purposes
of the safe-harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, including but not limited to: the ability of the
Company and Intego to successfully execute the terms of their
distribution agreement, the ability of the Intego tools to meet
their expected performance capabilities, the Company's ability to
successfully market and sell the Intego tools to new and existing
customers. These forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of
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excess capacity in the markets for the output of our solar and sapphire
equipment, general economic conditions and the tightening credit market
having an adverse impact on demand for the Company's products, the
possibility that changes in government incentives may reduce demand for
solar products, which would, in turn, reduce demand for our equipment,
technological changes could render existing products or technologies
obsolete, the Company may be unable to protect its intellectual property
rights, competition from other manufacturers may increase, exchange rate
fluctuations and conditions in the credit markets and economy may reduce
demand for the Company's products and various other risks as outlined in
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