ASM International NV Announces Resignation of Petrus Antonius Maria Van Bommel as Chief Financial Officer

ASM International N.V. specializes in designing, producing, and selling equipment for use by semiconductor manufacturers. The activity is organized around two families of products: - semiconductor wafers: productions and special films used to make wafers of silicon, copper, etc.; - assembly and packaging equipment: for the matrices made by cutting semiconductor wafers. The group also produces encapsulated semiconductors. Net sales are distributed geographically as follow: Europe (11.5%), Asia (67.4%) and the United States (21.1%).