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Timeline

Brewer Science Timeline of Achievements

Where Innovation Has Taken Flight for 25 Years!

1981    - Brewer Science, Inc.® incorporated
1982    - First commercial g-line ARC® coating production line established
1983    - DARC® product established
1984    - First SBIR grant awarded: "E-Beam Imageable Polyimides"
1985    - Ground broken for 10,000-sq.-ft. building
1986    - First commercial i-line ARC® coating production line established
1987    - Cee® equipment introduced
            - PiC color resins introduced
1988    - First U.S. patent issued: "Adhesion Promoters"
1990    - 21,000-sq.-ft. plant expansion
            - Thirteenth SBIR contract awarded
            - ARC® coatings patent issued
1991    - Cee® automated coat/bake system introduced
1992    - Brewer Science Limited office opened in UK
            - Patterned color filter glass fabrication established
            - Missouri SBDC "Small Business of the Year" Award
            - Missouri SBDC "Excellence in Business" Award
            - State of Missouri "Exports for Success" Award
1993    - Fourteenth patent issued
            - Missouri SBDC "Entrepreneurship Award"
            - Distributorship agreement signed with Nissan Chemical Industries, Japan
1994    - Four divisional centers established
1995    - Semiconductor International Award: "Editor's Choice, Best Product - ARC®"
1997    - Sixtieth ARC® coating production line established
            - Nine ARC® coating patents issued; eight patents pending
            - Cee® group installed 500th system
            - Optical Materials Division expanded color filter device manufacturing
            - Twenty-seventh SBIR contract awarded
            - Twenty-one patents in company's patent portfolio
1998    - 47,000-sq.-ft. plant expansion
            - Received first National Tibbetts Award for "Excellence in Research"
            - ARC® manufacturing plant established in Japan
2000    - Number of employees reached 200
2001    - Earned QS9000 certification
            - Received ISO 14001 certification
            - Brewer Science Asia, Limited, office opened in Hong Kong
            - ARC® and OMD combined to create the Chemicals Group
            - Cee® group became part of the newly formed Equipment Business Group
            - New Business Group launched
            - Record number of manufactured batches and shipments achieved
2002    - Celebrated 20 years of operation
            - First sale to Russia
            - County-wide household hazardous waste dollection provided as community service
            - In-house recycling program launched
            - Ground broken for 55,000-sq.-ft. R&D facility in the United States
            - "Outstanding Business Achievement Award" from the Missouri Waste Coalition
            - Number of employees exceeded 300 mark
            - R&D facility completed
2003    - Oracle 11i system operational - company moved from MRP to ERP
            - Research began in the newly constructed R&D Center
            - Equipment Group introduced the TALON™ wafer processing system
            - New ARC® 248nm and 193nm materials introduced
            - Small Business Administration's "2003 Hall of Fame Award"
            - Specialty Materials introduced OptiNDEX™ material
            - Equipment Business Group ships its thousandth machine
            - Brewer Science Taiwan, Limited, opened
            - Received ISO 9001:2000 registration
            - Hosted Anti-Reflective Coating Symposium in Austin, Texas
            - Shanghai, China, office opens
            - Hosted Anti-Reflective Coating Symposium in Leuven, Belgium
            - Received Export Acheivement Award from U.S. Department of Commerce
            - ENSEMBLE™ ARC® introduced by joint development agreement with Dow Chemical Company
            - Hosted THE LITHOGRAPHY SYMPOSIUM in Albany, New York
            - Achieved ISO 14001 registration
2004   - Opened office in Shanghai, China
           - Dr. Terry Brewer, President, received the Edmond Ward Bishop
             Award for Lifetime of Dedication to the Community
           - Anti-Reflective Technical Symposium held in Leuven, Belgium
           - Third Annual Community Household Hazardous Waste Collection held
           - Received Export Achievement Award from U.S. Department of Commerce
           - Tenth annual bicycle "Ride to the River" held near Rolla, Missouri
           - Joined SiLKnet Alliance
           - TALON™ 300 wafer processing system introduced
           - High-performance organic chemical vapor deposition films contract funding commenced
           - First annual Greater Rolla Area Volunteer Fair held
           - Joint development agreement with Dow Chemical Company commenced to commercialize hybrid
              bottom anti-reflective coatings for ArF lithography under the ENSEMBLE™ ARC® brand name
           - ISO 9001:2000 registration achieved
           - Partnered with the City of Rolla to host the First Annual Electronics Waste Collection the local community
           - Anti-Reflective Technical Symposium held in Albany, New York
           - ISO14001 registration achieved
           - Dr. Terry Brewer, President, received the Eugene E. Northern Award from the Meramec Regional
              Planning Commission for his commitment and dedication
2005   - The Lithography Symposium held in Grenoble, France


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