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