GENERAL OVERVIEW
The Egide Group has a significant manufacturing base structured around three sites: Egide SA in Bollène (France), Egide USA in Cambridge (Maryland, USA) and Santier in San Diego (California, USA).
In the three production sites, Egide has the following equipment and machinery:
- two ceramic casting rooms with atmospheric control equipment,
- two class 10,000 clean rooms containing equipment for greenline HTCC Processing; machines to punch out vias and windows, machines for filling the vias, machines for screen printing conductors and open-vias, presses, and an automatic cutter,
- glass beads manufacturing equipment,-debind ovens ,
- ovens for high temperature (1,600°) sintering of ceramics and molded components ,
- computer controlled diamond saws,
- machines for edge screen printing,
- ovens for vacuum soldering ,
- conveyor kilns for atmosphere-controlled soldering (medium and high temperature),
- conveyor kilns for hermetic sealing with glass beads,
- manually-operated or computer controlled electroplating installations ,
- machines for verifying hermetic sealing,-Several graphite machining centers,
- several metal machining centers,
- several instruments for verifying visual and dimensional characteristics (including a 3D gauge),
- a wire bonder (cabling facility),
- thermal cycling machines.