Press releases

August 18th 2005
Alchimer announces the launch of its manufacturing pilot line in Massy.

June 21st 2005
Alchimer welcomes Intel Capital in an extension of its second round of funding.

April 1st 2005
Alchimer in the short-list of the "Red Herring 100 Europe Awards".

January 26th 2005
Alchimer among Winners of the Tornado Insider's T100 list of the 100 best-performing and innovative high-tech private companies of Europe and Israel in the past year.

December 13th 2004
Alchimer is present at the IEDM Congress in San Francisco, where TSMC presents the first integration results on 45 nm Cu BEOL using electro-grafted Cu seeds.

November 9th 2004
Alchimer welcomes Auriga Partners, Partech International and FCJE in a 11 M€ second round of funding.

April 2004
Alchimer joins new 900 m² facility in Massy, France, enlarging its capacity for product development, surface analysis and process engineering of its technology.

January 26th 2004
Alchimer recruits Dr Patrick Rabinzohn, formerly CTO at Applied Materials France, as Director of its microelectronics division.

March 21st 2003
Alchimer completes a 4,8 M€ first round of funding to finance the industrialisation of its processes and its growth in the field of biomedical applications and microelectronics.

March 2002
Alchimer completes a pre-funding agreement with CEA and CEA-Valorisation, granting Alchimer an exclusive worldwide licence on all CEA patents and know-how related to the technology of electro-grafting.

September 17th 2001
Roger- Gérard Schwartzenberg, French Minister of Research and Industry, awards Alchimer the First National Award for the Creation of High-Tech Companies.

August 13th 2001
Christophe Bureau PhD and François Breniaux, both from the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA, France) create Alchimer S.A., a company specialised in the functionnalisation of surfaces, based on personal funding.

In the news

Alchimer has been announced as a finalist in the 3D Packaging category of the Advanced Packaging Awards! The winners will be announced at Semicon West 2008.

Alchimer has made it to the final round of the EuroAsia Semiconductor Awards 2008 – please click here to vote for Alchimer!

June 2006
Micro Magazine – "Copper Seed Layer"

November 1st 2007
Semiconductor International – “Electrografting proposed for Cu seed layers”.

January 12th 2006:
Alchimer's electrografting (eG™) technology enters the ITRS (International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors), 2005 edition as one of the leading solutions for Copper Seed Layer processing (eG™ Seed) for ULSI in semiconductor manufacturing.

November 17th 2005
Alchimer selected by the French Tech Tour as one of the leading top 25+ high-growth privately held technology companies in France, and was introduced to key European, US and Asian investors and professionals to assist their global expansion.

June 6th 2005
Forbes Nanotech (Vol.4, n°6, p.6) – "...with a $12 million Series B round of financing closing soon and useful, cost-efficient technology, Alchimer is a company to watch".

April 14th 2003
Les Echos – Alchimer technologies as true alternatives in the struggle for the ultimate reduction in size in microelectronics.