Swagelok Company has acquired Coreflex LLC for an undisclosed sum. Coreflex is a manufacturer of high-quality hose products used mostly in semiconductor, biopharmaceutical, and other cleanroom sectors. The acquisition is designed to broaden its offerings in the hose market, the company said. 

Entegris has said that it has spent $8 million on a 14 percent equity stake of privately held Integrated Materials, Inc. (IMI), which specializes in poly silicon-based components, in particular for semiconductor diffusion furnaces. The agreement will also allow Entegris to purchase the remaining equity of IMI upon completion of certain closing conditions, according to the company. 

Asyst Technologies has said that it has responded to semiconductor equipment manufacturers’ needs for supplying faster access to real-time data and overall greater throughput to process tool operating data with the implementation of SECS/GEM tool connectivity products for 64-bit computing architectures. 

Aalberts Industries (AI) has said that it has acquired an 80 percent shareholding in Integrated Dynamics Engineering GmbH and 100 percent ownership of sub-systems supplier Integrated Dynamics Engineering, Inc. IDE will be integrated into AI’s Industrial Services division to boost its presence in the semiconductor industry and specifically in the field of lithography, according to the company. 

Emerson has sold its specialty flow measurement and control division Brooks Instrument to private equity firm American Industrial Partners for approximately $100 million in cash. Brooks Instrument had sales of approximately $90 million in 2007, according to Emerson. 

Tokyo Electron has entered into a marketing alliance with Integrated Materials, Inc. (IMI) in relation to IMI’s pure poly silicon furnace consumable products. TEL also said that further collaboration was being discussed. 

Applied Materials has said that it has now completed the acquisition of certain assets of Edwards Vacuum, Inc.’s Kachina semiconductor equipment parts cleaning and refurbishment business. 

In an effort to diversify and expand its business, Peak International has started selling 300mm wafer shippers and is expected to bring to market several more versions in 2008. The company has secured its first customer for its ‘UltraCare’ wafer shipper and has built a new dedicated cleanroom to ramp production with a third cleanroom already under construction, the company said.