Akoustis® Receives ISO 9001:2015 Quality Certification for Its NY Wafer Fab
December 06 2017 - 7:00AM
Akoustis Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKTS) (“Akoustis” or the
“Company”), a manufacturer of patented single-crystal BulkONE® bulk
acoustic wave (BAW) high-band RF filters for mobile and other
wireless applications, announced today its wafer
fabrication facility located in Canandaigua, NY has received ISO
9001:2015 certification, which is the internationally recognized
standard that sets out the criteria for a quality management
system.
The NY facility previously earned certification
under ISO 9001:2008 in 2011 and has passed each subsequent
audit. The wafer fab recently completed a rigorous
process-based recertificaiton audit, conducted by an accredited
registrar, to achieve certification to the ISO 9001:2015
standard. The certification promotes the
development of continual improvement, customer satisfaction,
traceability and international best practices within the Akoustis
organization.
Jeff Shealy, CEO of Akoustis, commented, “Our
goal of meeting and exceeding our customers' expectations through
innovative products and supply chain excellence begins with
employing fundamentally sound business practices and delivering
highly reliable products. By achieving the important
milestone of ISO 9001:2015 certification, we are demonstrating our
commitment to a corporate wide culture of continually improving our
products and services and a focus on the success of our
customers.”
Akoustis is pioneering next-generation materials
science to address the market requirements for improved RF filters
- targeting higher bandwidth, higher operating frequencies and
higher output power compared to incumbent polycrystalline BAW
technology deployed today. Superior performance is driven by the
significant advances of high-purity, single-crystal piezoelectric
materials and the resonator-filter process technology. The
advanced material properties drive electro-mechanical coupling,
which translates to wide filter bandwidth. High-band RF filters are
achieved by leveraging the Company’s high-sound velocity,
single-crystal piezoelectric materials. These single-crystal
piezoelectric materials offer high-thermal conductivity along the
path of heat flow, enabling high-power handling capability of the
RF filter. The Company has announced four customer engagements for
its premium high band BAW RF filters in frequencies ranging from
1.5 GHz to 5.2 GHz and remains focused on customer design
engineering engagements, as well as technology and product
qualification for commercial manufacturing in first-half of
calendar year 2018.
About ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management
SystemISO 9001:2015 sets out the criteria for a quality
management system and it can be used by any organization, large or
small, regardless of its field of activity. In fact, there are over
one million companies and organizations in over 170 countries
certified to ISO 9001. This standard is based on a number of
quality management principles including a strong customer focus,
the motivation and implication of top management, the process
approach and continual improvement. Using ISO 9001:2015 helps
ensure that customers get consistent, good quality products and
services, which in turn brings many business benefits.
About Akoustis Technologies, Inc.
Akoustis® (http://www.akoustis.com) is a
high-tech RF filter solutions company that designs and manufactures
its unique, patented BulkONE® technology to produce single-crystal
bulk acoustic wave (BAW) RF filters for mobile and other wireless
markets, which facilitate signal acquisition and accelerate band
performance between the antenna and digital back end. Its
BulkONE® technology will service the fast growing multi-billion
dollar market of device OEMs, network providers, and consumers to
diminish Front End phone heat, battery drain and signal loss -- all
considered to be directly related to current RF polycrystalline
filter technologies' limitations. The Company owns and
operates a 120,000 sq. ft. ISO-9001 certified commercial
wafer-manufacturing facility located in Canandaigua, NY, which
includes a class 100 / class 1000 cleanroom facility - tooled for
150-mm diameter - for the design, development, fabrication and
packaging of RF filters, MEMS and semiconductor devices. Akoustis
is headquartered in the Piedmont technology corridor near Charlotte
North Carolina.
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forward-looking statements are based on management’s current
expectations and assumptions and are subject to risks and
uncertainties. Factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those currently anticipated include, without
limitation, risks relating to the results of our research and
development activities, including uncertainties relating to
semiconductor process manufacturing; the early stage of our
BulkONE® technology presently under development; our ability to
protect our intellectual property rights that are valuable to our
business, including patent and other intellectual property rights;
our ability to successfully market and sell our technologies; the
ability to achieve high volume manufacturing in the first-half
calendar year 2018 and the size and growth of the potential markets
for any of our technologies, the rate and degree of market
acceptance of any of our technologies and our ability to raise
funding to support operations and the continued development and
qualification of its premium high-band BAW RF filters utilizing its
patented single-crystal piezoelectric materials. These and other
risks and uncertainties, which are described in more detail in the
Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and in other
reports and statements filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions,
the forward-looking statements regarding future events and
circumstances discussed in this press release may not occur, and
actual results could differ materially and adversely from those
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forward-looking statements for any reason after the date of this
presentation to conform these statements to actual results or to
changes in our expectations.
Akoustis Contact Information:
COMPANY: Dave Aichele Akoustis Technologies,
Inc. VP of Business Development` 704-997-5735, ext. 106
daichele@akoustis.com INVESTORS:The Del Mar
Consulting Group, Inc.Robert B. Prag,
President858-794-9500bprag@delmarconsulting.com
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