{ "schemaVersion": 1, "organisationId": "O-7fc6de7cd1f84b2687615589d526027f", "slug": "tokyo-electron", "name": "Tokyo Electron LTD", "updatedAt": "2026-09-28T12:04:23.719102Z", "sections": [ { "type": "OVERVIEW", "text": "Tokyo Electron Ltd. is a Japan-based manufacturer of equipment used to produce semiconductors. Founded in 1963, it develops, manufactures, sells and services systems used in chipmaking, including equipment for coating and developing, etching, deposition and cleaning. It also supplies equipment for flat-panel display production. [https://www.tel.com/about/summary/index.html][https://www.tel.com/corporatesummary/][https://www.tel.com/product/etch.html]\n\nThe company’s stated mission is to contribute to a “dream-inspiring society” through leading-edge technologies and reliable service and support. Tokyo Electron reported ¥2.43 trillion in net sales for the fiscal year ended March 2025. Its company profile lists approximately 20,800 consolidated employees and 102 sites across 18 countries and regions as of April 2026, reflecting a global manufacturing and customer-support presence. [https://www.tel.com/about/ptc/index.html][https://www.tel.com/ir/irta3a00000006g5-att/fy25q4tanshin-e.pdf][https://www.tel.com/about/summary/index.html]\n[P134391999][P134391814][https://www.tel.com/about/summary/index.html][https://www.tel.com/corporatesummary/][https://www.tel.com/product/etch.html][https://www.tel.com/about/ptc/index.html][https://www.tel.com/ir/irta3a00000006g5-att/fy25q4tanshin-e.pdf]", "updatedAt": "2026-09-28T12:04:23.719102Z" }, { "type": "PRODUCTS", "text": "Tokyo Electron makes equipment for semiconductor fabrication across lithography, etching, deposition, cleaning and wafer testing. Its CLEAN TRACK LITHIUS coater/developer systems apply and develop photoresist; Tactras plasma-etch systems process features such as high-aspect-ratio holes, trenches and dielectric layers. The Triase+ single-wafer platform deposits materials including titanium, titanium nitride and tungsten, while TELINDY PLUS batch furnaces perform processes including oxidation, annealing and low-pressure chemical vapor deposition. CELLESTA systems clean and dry 300-mm wafers. [https://www.tel.com/product/lithius.html][https://www.tel.com/product/tactras.html][https://www.tel.com/product/triase.html][https://www.tel.com/product/telindy.html][https://www.tel.com/product/cellesta.html]\n\nThe portfolio also includes wafer probers for testing, equipment for wafer bonding and debonding in advanced packaging, and plasma etch and ash equipment for large-area glass substrates used in flat-panel displays. For semiconductor production equipment sold new in the year ended March 2025, etch accounted for 35% of sales, coater/developer 27%, deposition 19%, cleaning 13%, wafer prober 4% and other equipment 2%. These percentages do not describe total company sales. [https://www.tel.com/product/prexa.html][https://www.tel.com/product/synapse-ulucus.html][https://www.tel.com/product/etch.html][P134391999]\n\nTokyo Electron supports installed equipment through field engineering, spare parts and repairs, upgrades and modifications, and used-equipment services. [https://www.tel.com/product/service/index.html]\n[P134391999][https://www.tel.com/product/lithius.html][https://www.tel.com/product/tactras.html][https://www.tel.com/product/triase.html][https://www.tel.com/product/telindy.html][https://www.tel.com/product/cellesta.html][https://www.tel.com/product/prexa.html][https://www.tel.com/product/synapse-ulucus.html][https://www.tel.com/product/etch.html][https://www.tel.com/product/service/index.html]", "updatedAt": "2026-09-28T12:04:23.719102Z" }, { "type": "GEOGRAPHY", "text": "Tokyo Electron is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Its Japanese development and manufacturing footprint includes sites in Yamanashi, Kumamoto and Miyagi, while its international group companies have head offices in Austin, Texas; Crawley, United Kingdom; Hwaseong, South Korea; Hsinchu, Taiwan; Shanghai, China; and Singapore. [https://www.tel.com/about/locations/index.html][https://www.tel.com/about/locations/tea.html][https://www.tel.com/about/locations/tee.html][https://www.tel.com/about/locations/tek.html][https://www.tel.com/about/locations/tet.html][https://www.tel.com/about/locations/tes.html][https://www.tel.com/about/locations/tsi.html]\n\nSales are concentrated in Asia. In the fiscal year ended March 2025, China accounted for approximately 42% of net sales, Taiwan and South Korea for 17% each, Japan for 8%, Southeast Asia and other markets for 3%, North America for 10%, and Europe for 3%. These figures describe customer locations, not where Tokyo Electron’s employees or production facilities are located. 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[https://www.tel.com/ir/library/consolidated-financial-statements/j9e7ji00000000dw-att/Consolidated_Financial_Statements_FY2025.pdf][https://www.tel.com/product/][https://www.tel.com/product/etch.html]\n\nA useful sales breakdown is by equipment and aftermarket activity, rather than by reportable segment. In the year ended March 2025, semiconductor new-equipment sales were ¥1,861.1 billion, or approximately 76.5% of consolidated sales; Field Solutions contributed ¥538.3 billion, or approximately 22.1%, from used equipment and modifications, parts and services. The remaining approximately ¥32 billion, or 1.3%, is an **estimated FPD-equipment share calculated by subtraction**, not a separately reported segment figure. Field Solutions therefore should not be treated as a separate reportable segment. 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The company adopted the Tokyo Electron name in 1978 and listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Second Section in 1980, moving to the First Section in 1984. [https://www.tel.com/about/milestones/]\n\nTokyo Electron expanded its equipment development and international operations in subsequent decades. In 1988, it introduced the CLEAN TRACK MARK V coater/developer, which used robotic wafer transfer; in 1994, it established Tokyo Electron Europe. [https://www.shmj.or.jp/english/pdf/em/exhibi2455E.pdf][https://www.tel.com/about/gb/index.html] In 2012, the company announced its acquisition of FSI International, a maker of wafer-cleaning equipment. Tokyo Electron and Applied Materials announced a proposed combination in 2013, but terminated the agreement in 2015. 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