The company now has similarly high and flexible production capacities in Germany and
Taiwan, which can be used for different solutions depending on customer demand.
The new location has the potential to double the cleanroom production capacity in
Taiwan to 6,300 square meters. The new site has a total indoor area of around
18,000 square meters and offers more than 400 SUSS employees in Taiwan a state[1]of-the-art building for production, development, service, training, and administration.
Due to the high growth in recent years, the workforce in Taiwan was most recently
spread across a total of eight locations, which will be vacated once the relocation is
complete. The company has invested around € 15 million in the new Zhubei site in
recent months – primarily for office and clean room installations. This makes Zhubei
the largest international infrastructure project in the history of SUSS to date.
Grand opening with more than 100 guests from the semiconductor community
During the grand opening, which was attended by more than 100 customers,
suppliers, political representatives, local authorities, and SUSS employees, Dr.
Thomas Rohe highlighted the significance of Taiwan for the company: “A few years
ago, we made a conscious decision to establish SUSS’s only production site outside
Germany in Taiwan. Since then, we have built a strong reputation as an employer
and become an integral part of the Taiwanese semiconductor community.” He also
expressed his gratitude to the employees for their dedication: “Everyone involved in
the project has worked tirelessly to meet the ambitious schedule, making it possible
for us to celebrate this opening today – just one year after signing the long-term
lease agreement.”
Expansion of production capacities for future tool generations close to customers
In his speech, Burkhardt Frick, CEO of SUSS, emphasized Taiwan's importance for
the semiconductor and semiconductor equipment industry: "Taiwan offers a unique
ecosystem with highly skilled workers and suppliers, as well as leading chip
manufacturers who produce the majority of the most advanced semiconductors for
the global market. We are proud to be part of this ecosystem and to work with our
customers to develop pioneering solutions for the industry." As an example, Frick
cited the heterogeneous integration of chip modules, which shifts a larger portion of
the innovation potential to the backend of the semiconductor value chain.
SUSS is addressing this trend with its Advanced Backend Solutions business unit, which
contributes two-thirds of the Group's sales with coating, imaging, and bonding
solutions. In Taiwan, SUSS currently produces temporary bonders, coaters, and UV
projection scanners—all solutions from the Advanced Backend Solutions segment.
The first tools to be built in Zhubei are scheduled for delivery in early 2026
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