ESPOO, Finland, March 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

Picosun Oy, the manufacturer of leading quality Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) equipment, delivers advanced ALD technology to Bosch's Corporate Sector Research and Advance Engineering for development of novel ALD processes for new products and applications.

The now announced collaboration between Picosun and Bosch Corporate Research signifies the crucial role of ALD in today's high tech forefront. With its nearly 300,000 employees and 46.4 billion euros of sales (2013), more than 360 subsidiaries and presence in around 150 countries, the Bosch Group is one of the leading global actors in fields such as automotive technology, industrial products, and building products.

"We are very pleased to provide our unmatched ALD expertise to Bosch. Picosun and Bosch already share a history of collaboration. The current delivery of Picosun's ALD technology to Bosch's Corporate Sector Research and Advance Engineering only solidifies this further. At the moment, ALD is breaking through throughout the modern industrial field. The implementation of our ALD know-how in one of the world's most multidisciplinary and diverse industrial giants, along with our other deliveries to several prominent global production customers, truly tells how central method ALD is becoming in today's manufacturing industries," states Juhana Kostamo, Managing Director of Picosun.

Picosun's leading ALD thin film technology enables the industrial leap into the future by novel, cutting-edge coating solutions, with four decades of continuous, groundbreaking expertise in the field. Today, PICOSUN™ ALD systems are in daily production use in numerous prominent industries around the globe. Picosun is based in Finland, with subsidiaries in USA and Singapore, and a world-wide sales and support network.

Contact:

Juhana Kostamo, Managing Director (email juhana.kostamo@picosun.com; tel. +358 50 321 1955)

SOURCE Picosun OY