Mapper, the Dutch manufacturer of machines for e-beam lithography, has a capital injection of 80 million euros, including 40 million from a Russian investor. The company out of Delft wants to use the money to increase the production.
The Dutch Mapper Lithography, a spin-off of TU Delft, is developing techniques for e-beam lithography. By wafers with electron beams to describe, would smaller process nodes are within reach, come than with traditional lithografietechnieken possible. The company now reports a round 80 million euros to have won.
Half of that money comes from the Russian investor, Rusnano, which is entirely in the hands of the Russian state. This company tries with investments in a number of projects the Russian nanotechologie industry a push in the back. The remaining 40 million comes from existing investors in Mapper, such as ADP Industries, Hoving & Partners, Technolution and Demcon. In addition, the Dutch government through a loan from Agentschap NL, part of the ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation of the financing.
Mapper Lithography want the money going to use the new Matrix-‘electronbeamsystemen’ to customers and to create new infrastructure to build, which at least twenty new machines per year must be able to fabricate. The Dutch government invested earlier in Mapper.