Topsil is highly dependent on specially-trained staff in the production, and the technical functions are dependent on highly-skilled engineers. The ability to develop new products as well as to optimise processes, machine technology and product flows is crucial for Topsil to stay competitive and meet customer demand, also in future.

Topsil has its own expertise in design, development and manufacturing of machines for the production of FZ silicon, and the group has developed its own production processes and FZ machines, which basically means that production and process know-how is protected. 

The Topsil Group expects to intensify research and development activities throughout the next few years in order to increase crystal diameters and the precision of the electrical crystal parameters for the FZ as well as the CZ production. The company’s efforts in 2010 and 2011 will be specifically dedicated to the development of a 200mm (8”) FZ product with specific capabilities for the medium power area.