SCHMID Group of Germany Wins Wet Process Equipment Order for Glass Core Substrate Plant in South Asia

en.Wedoany.com Reported - On November 9, the German SCHMID Group announced that it has received an order for key wet process equipment from a U.S. glass advanced packaging technology company. The equipment will be used at its glass core substrate manufacturing plant under construction in South Asia. The plant is South Asia's first advanced packaging production facility centered on glass substrates and 3D heterogeneous integration, with a designed annual capacity of approximately 70,000 glass panels at full ramp-up, and will also produce glass interposers and 3D heterogeneous integration modules. The equipment order will be booked in SCHMID Group's order intake for the fourth quarter of 2026.

The order covers key wet processing equipment for glass core substrate manufacturing. SCHMID Group will supply panel-level process equipment covering through-glass via formation, metallization, and subsequent build-up manufacturing, combining its electroplating and vacuum metallization technologies to provide the customer with related process equipment. Through-glass vias (TGV) are vertical interconnect structures that penetrate the glass substrate; the via walls must undergo metallization to form electrical connections with the circuit layers on the substrate surface. Via formation, via wall metal deposition, and subsequent circuit build-up are the main process steps in glass core substrate production.

The customer is a glass advanced packaging technology company headquartered in the United States. The company has spent nearly 20 years developing proprietary photo-patternable glass-ceramic materials and through-glass via technology, and holds a related patent portfolio. The new plant will transition glass packaging technology previously in the technology development and pilot production stage into industrial manufacturing, with products including glass core substrates, glass interposers, and 3D heterogeneous integration modules.

The plant is planned to produce approximately 70,000 glass panels per year, targeting the artificial intelligence processor, high-performance computing, data center, fifth-generation mobile communications, and aerospace and defense electronics markets. SCHMID Group is responsible for the supply of wet process equipment for this project.