(NASDAQ (GM):AIXG) (German:AIX)

Company Financials Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Statement Contact Information AIXTRON AG Kackertstrasse 15-17 Aachen 52072, Germany Tel. +49-241-8909-0 Fax +49-241-8909-40

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.aixtron.de
Employees: 610
Employee growth: 7.8%

AIXTRON aches to help make fancy chips. The company is the leading manufacturer of MOCVD (metal-organic chemical vapor deposition) equipment, which chip makers use to produce advanced compound semiconductors for devices such as light-emitting diodes (LEDs), lasers, and fiber-optic components. AIXTRON's systems center around a "planetary reactor," in which multiple wafers revolve while gaseous materials (such as gallium arsenide) are deposited upon them. The company operates in the UK through Thomas Swan Scientific Equipment and in Sweden through Epigress. AIXTRON gets about 90% of its sales outside of Europe.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2007:
Sales: $294.4M
One year growth: 29.9%
Net income: $23.6M
Income growth: 245.6%

Officers:
Chairman, Supervisory Board: Kim Schindelhauer
President and CEO: Paul K. Hyland
EVP and CFO: Wolfgang Breme

Competitors:
Applied Materials
Novellus
Veeco Instruments