Meet the team

 Edward Duffy - Founder and CEO

• Involved in semiconductor capital equipment business since 1996.
• Lead Engineer for Applied Materials; new equipment installs and process qualification for the Intel global account.
• R&D engineering manager at Magnetic Solutions, responsible for the development of their first machine tools for semiconductor manufacturing.
• Founded Nines in 2007 to address the PV solar cell manufacturing market needs.

Edward Duffy                Laurent Clochard 

Laurent Clochard - CTO

• Involved in Research, technology transfer and product development since 1998
• Involved with several technology spin outs internationally
• Significant experience in product development for the Semi-conductor and Photovoltaic market
• Joined Nines in 2008.

Nines Engineering

Nines Photovoltaic is a sister company of Nines Engineering, an Irish company set up in 2007, and built up based on the founders experience, knowledge and contacts within the Semiconductor manufacturing industry. In 2009 the management team identified opportunities in the Photovoltaic (PV) space in which they could bring their extensive Semiconductor industry knowledge, and add value to the sector by developing novel processing technologies.

Nines Engineering continues to trade and specialises in process and equipment services to OEMs, academic institutes and device manufacturing end-users. For further information see www.nines-engineering.com

Areas of expertise

• Technical project management
• Production focused process engineering (design, manufacturing and Troubleshooting)
• Turnkey process equipment with integrated control systems