Germany's SCHMID Group Secures Equipment Order for Indian Glass Substrate Plant

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On November 9, Germany's SCHMID Group announced that it has received an order for wet-process equipment from a U.S. advanced packaging company, and will supply key production equipment for the company's glass-core substrate manufacturing plant under construction in South Asia. Once fully operational, the plant is designed to have an annual capacity of approximately 70,000 glass panels, with products primarily targeting fields such as artificial intelligence, data centers, 5G, and aerospace. The order will be booked into SCHMID Group's new orders in the fourth quarter of 2026.

This equipment supply involves key wet-processing steps in glass-core substrate manufacturing. SCHMID will provide equipment for glass substrate processing, to be used in processes including metallization after through-glass via formation and subsequent build-up manufacturing. These processes directly affect the electrical connections within the substrate, the quality of the metal layers, and product manufacturing yield.

Compared with conventional organic-material substrates, glass-core substrates offer better flatness and dimensional stability, can reduce material warpage in large-size packaging, and support finer circuit structures, higher interconnect density, and better signal integrity. These characteristics are suitable for AI accelerators, high-performance computing chips, and advanced packaging products using chiplet architectures.

In addition to glass-core substrates, the products planned for production at this plant also include glass interposers and 3D heterogeneous integration modules. Glass interposers are used for high-density electrical connections between different chips and packaging components, while 3D heterogeneous integration improves the integration level of packaging systems through the integration of different chips and functional modules. The plant is designed to produce approximately 70,000 glass panels per year, and will gradually transition from R&D and trial production to large-scale manufacturing.