Recently, a batch of customized Iridium Targets from our company completed rigorous quality inspection and customs declaration processes and was shipped to Germany. This collaboration marks the successful entry of our precious metal sputtering targets into the high-end semiconductor materials market in Europe, demonstrating China's strength in high-end sputtering target manufacturing.
Customer background
Germany is a world leader in high-end manufacturing fields such as semiconductors and precision electronics, with extremely stringent requirements for the purity and precision of core materials. The German client in this collaboration is a mid-sized semiconductor company with nearly 20 years of experience in the industry, specializing in chip manufacturing and precision thin-film deposition technology research and development. They serve numerous well-known European electronics manufacturers and enjoy a strong reputation and a well-established sales network in the region.
Previously, this client relied heavily on Japanese and American sputtering target suppliers, but faced problems such as long delivery cycles, high costs, and delayed after-sales service. As the semiconductor industry upgrades towards high-end products, the client urgently needs Chinese suppliers who possess technological strength, customization capabilities, and efficient service to reduce costs and shorten delivery times.
Why Choose Us
The client ultimately chose FANMETAL because of our core strengths and comprehensive services. With 25 years of experience in nobel metal product processing, we possess core technologies such as ultra-low oxygen purification and precision molding, ensuring the purity fully meets the client's stringent requirements.
Regarding customization, we can precisely control key parameters such as target size and thickness. The dimensional tolerance of this customized product was controlled within ±0.01mm, perfectly fitting the client's equipment and solving their customization challenges. Moreover, compared to Japanese and American suppliers, our comprehensive iridium industry chain allows us to provide high-performance, cost-effective products. Furthermore, our "zero-carbon sputtering process" reduces energy consumption by 30%, complying with the EU Carbon Border Tax (CBAM) requirements, becoming a significant highlight of the collaboration.
Collaboration process
The cooperation follows international trade norms throughout the process, and is efficient and transparent. After the customer learned about FANMETAL's products through the industry exhibition, our company responded quickly, arranged technical personnel to meet the needs, formulated a plan, and sent the sample. The two sides signed a formal foreign trade contract after the sample testing was fully up to standard.
After the contract is signed, our company strictly follows ISO9001 standards to promote production, and controls each process to ensure that the quality meets the standard. After the production is completed, after comprehensive quality inspection, customs declaration, packing, and other processes are completed according to the requirements of German customs, and professional international logistics is selected to track the whole process. The entire cooperation took only 28 days, which was 40% shorter than the customer's original supplier cycle.
Customer testimonials
After receiving the goods for acceptance, the customer spoke highly of it: "Your company's Iridium Sputtering Target
High purity, accurate size, stable film deposition effect, short supply cycle and efficient service have solved our procurement problems, and we look forward to deepening cooperation. "The customer said that this cooperation has broken the stereotype of Chinese targets, and the scale of cooperation will be expanded in the future, and it is expected that our company will be listed as a core supplier and recommended to European counterparts.
conclusion
This cooperation is an important breakthrough in our foreign trade business, and it is also a milestone for domestic high-end targets to go international, which is in line with the growth trend of China's target exports. According to data from the Prospective Industry Research Institute, China's target exports increased by 12.29% year-on-year from January to April 2025, and this cooperation further enhanced the influence of domestic targets in Europe.
In the future, FANMETAL will continue to improve product technology and customization capabilities, optimize processes, reduce costs, focus on the layout of high-end markets in Europe and the United States, build a complete international sales and service network, promote the high-quality "going global" of domestic targets, and contribute to the upgrading of China's semiconductor industry and Sino-foreign friendly cooperation.
