Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. is an American multinational

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headquartered in

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that develops precision power conversion, measurement and control technologies for the manufacture of semiconductors, flat panel displays, data storage products, telecommunications network equipment, industrial coatings, medical devices, solar cells and architectural glass.

General

Founded in 1981, Advanced Energy operates in regional centers in North America,

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, and Europe, and offers global sales and support through direct offices, representatives, and distributors. The company has manufacturing facilities in the U.S.,

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and Asia. Advanced Energy produces products that are required for the manufacture of many plasma thin-film industries as well as semiconductor, flat panel displays, data storage,

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, solar cells, medical devices and

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. It once manufactured and sold gas-system products for semiconductor, but withdrew from the market of gas-system products.

Products

Advanced Energy's Products include high and low voltage power systems, thermal measuring instruments, plasma power generators, remote plasma sources, electrostatic products, AC/DC and DC-DC power supplies, and thyristor power controls. The company also offers services globally.

Historical highlights and acquisitions

*1981 Founded in

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, U.S.A. on May 5 *1987 Japanese office opened *1990

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office opened *1993 UK office opened *1995 Listed on Nasdaq *1996

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n office opened *1998 RF Power Products acquired *1999

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office opened *2000 China office opened *2001 Sekidenko acquired *2002 Aera Corporation acquired *2002 Litmas acquired *2002 Dressler (Dressler Hochfrequenztechnik GmbH & Dressler USA, Inc.) acquired *2007 Dressler site closed *2010 PV Powered acquired *2010

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business and

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business sold to Hitachi Metal (Japan). Temporarily withdrawing from the Japanese office. *2012 Solvix SA acquired *2013 RefuSol (Metzingen, Germany) acquired *2014 Power control modules (

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controllers) section of AEG Power Solutions, Warstein-Belecke, Germany, acquired *2014 HiTek Power (UK) acquired *2014 UltraVolt (US) acquired *2017 Excelsys (IRL) acquired *2017 Japan office re-entry *2018

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office opened *2018 TREK Holdings (US) acquired *2018 Monroe Electronics (US) acquired *2018 LumaSense (US) acquired *2019 Divests Solar Inverter business *2019 Customer Solutions Center Karlstein am Main, Germany opened *2019 Artesyn Embedded Power (US) acquired *2022 SL Power acquired *2020 Advanced Energy STEM Diversity Scholarship Program introduced *2021 TEGAM acquisition *2021 Versatile Power acquisition

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Historical highlights and acquisitions

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