Brooks Instrument Celebrates New Manufacturing Site in Malaysia
Grand opening for the company's fourth manufacturing facility highlights production and partnership opportunities with key customers in the Asia-Pacific region
Brooks Instrument, a world leader in advanced flow measurement and control, recently celebrated a grand opening for its new manufacturing facility in Penang, Malaysia, where it produces mass flow controllers (MFCs) used in semiconductor and other critical gas flow control applications.
The 57,000-square-foot plant, which began shipping MFCs in January 2024, is Brooks Instrument's fourth global production area. The other locations are in the U.S., Hungary and Korea.
Brooks Instrument is owned by Illinois Tool Works (ITW), one of the world's leading diversified manufacturers of specialized industrial equipment. ITW has a 42-year history of investment in Penang, with ITW Meritex providing packaging solutions for chips that support semiconductor back-end customers.
The Brooks Instrument grand opening took place at the end of August and included Dato' Seri SH Wong, President of the Malaysia Semiconductor Industry Association (MSIA) and Dato' Loo Lee Lian, CEO of InvestPenang, along with several other government officials, industry dignitaries and customers.
Patty Hartzell, Executive Vice President, Test & Measurement and Electronics at ITW, gave the keynote address and paid tribute to the efforts of the team who made the new facility operational in record time.
"I am proud to say it took less than a year from the time we approved the capital expenditure to the day when the first mass flow controllers were produced in the factory," said Hartzell.
She also recognized the support Brooks Instrument received from several government and industry groups, including InvestPenang, Majlis Bandaraya Seberang Perai (MBSP), the Malaysian Investment Development Authority (MIDA), Penang Development Corporation (PDC) and MSIA.
The new Penang site includes Brooks Instrument's largest Class 100 clean room manufacturing area and will allow the company to double its worldwide MFC production capacity. The high-volume facility is mainly producing GF100 series mass flow controllers, which are often viewed as the semiconductor industry standard for reliable and repeatable delivery of process gasses.
The factory also serves as an additional location for manufacturing and parts inventory, complementing the company's other production facilities while reducing the risk of a supply chain disruption.
About Brooks Instrument:
Since 1946, Brooks Instrument has been a leader in precision fluid measurement and control technology. Providing instrumentation for flow, pressure and vapor delivery, the company serves customers in semiconductor and high-tech manufacturing, laboratories and other processes and industries. With manufacturing, sales and service locations in the Americas, Europe and Asia, Brooks Instrument has the world's largest installed base of mass flow controllers.
For more information, please visit www.BrooksInstrument.com. The company is also on LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/company/Brooks-Instrument) and YouTube (www.youtube.com/user/Brooks407).
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