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Bloomington, MN

Polar Fab III Wafer Manufacturing Facility

How do you meet speed to market while navigating significant scope reduction?

Polar Semiconductor is a leading fabricator of custom semiconductor wafers used for everything from automobiles to flat-screen televisions. With an existing 200,000-square-foot facility that includes both Class 10 and Class 10,000 cleanrooms that meet the stringent requirements for high-performance semiconductors sought by industrial and consumer product manufacturers.

The expansion included a series of flexible new fabrication areas that can be quickly adapted in response to market trends; a gowning area, chemical receiving and storage areas, and training area.

We met the customer's goals of increasing production capabilities, maximizing the building footprint on a small site, providing manufacturing separation between the existing campus and the expansion, maintaining 24/7 operations and providing system redundancy to the existing plant. All of this was delivered on-time while navigating significant changes in scope definition. Mortenson helped trim costs by more than 60 percent to meet the reduced scope and budget needs.

Completion Date

October 2012

Delivery Method

Design-Build

Related

Advanced Manufacturing

Offices

Science + Technology

Minneapolis

Awards

DBIA Honor Award, 2013