ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Tuesday, Oct.8, 2024)—Plasma-Therm LLC is instituting disaster contingency plans to ensure continued operations during and after Hurricane Milton. The area of its headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida, is expected to receive major impacts from Hurricane Milton, with high winds starting this afternoon.
While the St. Petersburg headquarters has been mandatorily evacuated and temporarily closed now through Wednesday, company leaders and staff will be working diligently in safer locations and after an assessment of office damages expect to resume full operations after passage of the storm.
There will be no interruption of operations at any other of the company’s global sites, which include manufacturing, customer support, and administration facilities in Bernin, France, southwest England, Arizona, and California. Plasma-Therm also operates spare parts warehouses and technical support offices in Germany, Singapore, and elsewhere around the globe. Those facilities will temporarily assume responsibility for customer support communications and coordination with Plasma-Therm’s network of dealers and technical representatives while the headquarters facility is temporarily closed.
“Our headquarters facility is a robust, reinforced-concrete building with on-site emergency electrical generating capability,” Plasma-Therm CEO Abdul Lateef said. “We expect to resume full operations as soon as it’s safe for our employees to return to work.”
Plasma-Therm is a leading provider of specialty semiconductor manufacturing equipment. Its product lines include VERSALINE®, Singulator®, QuaZar IBE/IBD, Kobus, Odyssey HDRF, HeatPulse®, Eclipse, and Vision systems. Plasma-Therm customers include large and small enterprises and institutions engaged in manufacturing LEDs, sensors, miniature lasers, integrated circuits, computer memory, and other devices based on cutting-edge semiconductor technology.
