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.