News: Suppliers
29 December 2025
European firm orders two Riber MBE 6000 production systems
Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system maker Riber S.A. of Bezons, France has received an order for two MBE 6000 production systems (including associated services) for delivery in 2026.
The customer is a European company with fully vertically integrated production facilities, specializing in the development and manufacturing of a broad portfolio of photonic devices serving multiple fast-growing markets. These include optical connectivity for AI data centers, high-power light sources for LiDAR applications, as well as expanding medical, industrial and scientific markets. The high-value investment marks a new phase in the expansion of the customer’s industrial production capacity, enabling it to better support rising demand for high-performance optical sources.
The order also covers a comprehensive range of services and productivity-enhancing solutions provided by Riber, aimed at further strengthening manufacturing efficiency and process integration.
Riber says that its MBE 6000 platform is specifically designed for industrial-scale production of advanced III–V structures, offering high throughput, robust process stability and advanced automation. Its multi-wafer processing capability, supporting up to four 6-inch wafers per run, enables significant productivity gains and cost-efficient industrial manufacturing, while ensuring excellent uniformity and high reproducibility required for the growth of complex multi-layer heterostructures.
