CME is part of Edwards, the leading global vacuum and abatement business. CME, originally founded in 1967, is a leading manufacturer of automated wet etch process & cleaning equipment, as well as chemical dosing systems. These are primarily used in the production of photovoltaic wafers for solar panels and in the semiconductor sector.
The business is based in Newhaven, Sussex and employs around 30 people. Solar Semi Engineering Limited (SSE) is a new company founded by Tim Dodkin to provide wet process equipment to the solar and semiconductor manufacturing industries. Dodkin has over three decades of experience in high technology market development and international start ups, with a large majority of that time spent on complex wet process systems.
SSE will continue to market the former CME products with the addition of those new products required for high efficiency cells and semiconductor manufacturing, said Dodkin. Mathew Taylor, CEO of Edwards added: I am pleased that the CME business now has additional depth of experience behind it, and I feel sure it will prosper in this format in the years ahead.
