Nortech Systems, Inc. (NSYS) featured company in The Wall Street Transcript
2011-08-15 13:09:50
Michael J. Degen, President and CEO of Nortech Systems, Inc. (NSYS), talked to The Wall Street Transcript about his company.Click here to read the complete interview.
TWST: Lets begin with a brief overview of Nortech.
Mr. Degen: Nortech Systems dates back to the early 1980s. It was born out of a spin-off from Control Data Corporation back in 1982. It operated then as Digigraphic Systems from 1982 to 1990 when they filed a reorganization plan, chapter 11, in April of 1990. They emerged from that plan in October and became Nortech Systems in a reverse stock split, one for 10. Since 1990, weve operated as Nortech Systems and been publicly traded on Nasdaq. Back in 1990, our revenues were about $6 million and we did $100 million in 2010, so weve grown significantly. And weve grown from one location to nine, if you count our corporate headquarters. Our business is electronics contract manufacturing or electronics manufacturing services. We specialize in wire harnesses, cables, printed circuit board assemblies, electronic box builds, medical device assembly and test. Our market niche is low-volume, high-mix, highly engineered products that require a lot of customer and engineering support.
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inTEST Coporation (INTT) featured company in The Wall Street Transcript
2011-06-17 09:00:59
Robert E. Matthiessen, CEO, President and Director of inTEST Coporation (INTT), talked to The Wall Street Transcript about his company. Click here to read the complete interview.
TWST: Please begin with a brief overview of inTEST Corporation.
Mr. Matthiessen:inTEST designs, manufactures and markets products that are primarily used by semiconductor manufacturers to test their integrated circuits and wafer products. Our product lines include test head manipulators, docking hardware, tester interfaces and thermal test systems. And as a matter of fact, we are 30 years old this year. We were founded in 1981 and conducted our IPO in 1997. Since 1997, weve made five acquisitions, three significant ones. We have traditionally participated in the back-end test segment in the semiconductor business, so we supply capital equipment to the test areas of semiconductor manufacturers. This equipment is not the testers themselves nor the handling equipment itself, but those components that make it possible for the testers to be connected to the handling equipment, which ultimately makes our equipment mission critical. In addition, in recent years weve diversified our product suite into markets outside of semiconductors to help mitigate the semiconductor capital equipment curve. These markets include new growth industries, such as aerospace/defense, automotive, telecommunications and medical/pharmaceutical.
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Aetrium Inc. (ATRM) featured company in The Wall Street Transcript
2011-06-13 00:55:43
John J. Pollock, President, CEO and Director of Aetrium Inc. (ATRM), talked to The Wall Street Transcript about his company. Click here to read the complete interview.
TWST: What is Aetrium Inc.?
Mr. Pollock:Aetrium is a leading provider of test and handling solutions to the world's semiconductor and electronic component industries. To meet the industry's growing demand for increased test efficiencies and new testing capabilities, we design and manufacture production-based test handlers and reliability testers used by the semiconductor industry to test integrated circuits, or ICs, MEMs and other electronic components. Our first product is our Gravity Test Handler, which automates the process of testing computer chips and is ideally suited for parallel testing of analog devices, which are typically used in automotive, computer, laptops, cell phones and television applications. It has historically represented approximately 65% of our annual revenues. Our Gravity Handlers give us a competitive advantage with the world's shortest index time for gravity handlers, coupled with significantly improved uptime. We've increased our customers' productivity by evolving from single-site testing to eight-site testing, and we continue to provide this productivity while addressing the changes in semiconductor device packaging technology.
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Mattson Technology, Inc (MTSN) featured company in The Wall Street Transcript
2011-06-13 00:48:22
David L. Dutton, President and CEO of Mattson Technology, Inc. (MTSN), talked to The Wall Street Transcript about his company. Click here to read the complete interview.
TWST: What is Mattson Technology?
Mr. Dutton:We are a semiconductor capital equipment company. Specifically, we design, manufacture and market semiconductor wafer-processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits. Our equipment is used for applications in dry photoresist strip and rapid thermal processing, otherwise known as RTP. Additionally, we have entered the etch market with our proprietary inductively coupled plasma technology. Plasma stripping and RTP are our core markets, which we have been in for a number of years, and we are one of the global leaders in both markets. Etch is a new emerging market for us, and one that we are very excited about, as it more than doubles our served available market and allows us to expand and grow at a very strong rate above the industry.
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Atmel Corporation (ATML) featured company in Wall Street Transcript
2010-08-23 10:36:56
Steven Laub, President and CEO of Atmel Corporation (ATML), talked to the Wall Street Transcript about his company Atmel Corporation Click here to read the complete interview.TWST: Please begin with a brief historical sketch of Atmel Corporation and a summary of whats going on now.
Mr. Laub: Historically, Atmel® was focused primarily on memory products, particularly flash memory. Its growth from the mid-1980s through the late 1990s was primarily from memory products. The company began a very substantial business and product diversification as it pursued new growth drivers. I joined the company as President and CEO in August of 2006, and we dramatically changed our strategy at that time to focus on a few core product lines. Specifically, we began to focus on microcontroller and microcontroller-related technologies as the core business for the company. This led us to exit approximately 15 different businesses and product lines between early 2007 and the current time frame. We have also moved away from commodity markets and are now focused on more proprietary product markets to raise the growth rate and profitability of the company. A major impact of that is now being demonstrated in our financial results, as illustrated in the Q2 2010 financials that were just published on Aug. 4, 2010.
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