SFA Semicon appointed a new president for Philippine office, which is the core manufacturing site for semiconductor back-end process (OSAT). This decision was made in order to expand their global back-end business, and strengthen their productivity.
According to the SFA Semicon’s business report, Director Dong-hwan Lim was appointed as the president of SFA Semicon's Philippine office. He joined SFA Semicon as a former Samsung semiconductor engineer. He carried out production stabilization at the beginning of the Philippines plant establishment. He was also in charge of SFA Semicon bumping manufacturing team leader and SFA Semicon manufacturing 2 general manager. He was recently appointed as the president of the Philippine office.
President Lim seeks to improve productivity of SFA Semicon’s Philippine office. He will run the plants based on experience of management know-how in the semiconductor business from Samsung Semiconductor and the Philippine plant.
The Philippine office is a core business in charge of the SFA Semicon back-end process business. SFA Semicon operates overseas business sites in China and the Philippines. Philippine office is classified as a key plant. With incrasing production capacity from Samsung Electronics and SK hynix memory semiconductor, they are also improving production performance for computing and server DRAM memory. Last year, the package production capacity of the Philippine plant increased by 30% compared to the previous year. The actual production volume increased from 731 million in 2020 to 947 million in 2021.
SFA Semicon recorded KRW 174.3 billion in sales in the first quarter of this year, up 25% from last year. The company will expand its earnings by strengthening the productivity of their Philippine office. SFA Semicon plans to make additional investment in their Philippine office this year. They plan to invest KRW 9.3 billion in the Philippine office, and it is also predicted that the investment will increase to meet demand.
By Staff Reporter Ji-woong Kim (jw0316@etnews.com)