Supercharge Multiple Operations with Atlas Copco Rental's Air, Nitrogen and Power Fleets
In the high-risk world of electronics and semiconductor manufacturing, it only takes one issue to throw multiple processes off course. When a single equipment failure (be it air compressor, nitrogen supply, or power source) happens, what effects does it have across the entire platform?
Imagine an oil droplet the size of a pinhead contaminating a batch of state-of-the-art microchips — millions in losses and a damaged reputation. With multiple critical operations running simultaneously, even a minor delay can trigger a chain reaction across the entire workflow. That's where we come in.
Atlas Copco Specialty Rental delivers a complete solution: from oil-free and oil-injected air compressors to nitrogen generators and robust power generators — all engineered for fast deployment, reliability, and performance. We are at the forefront of meeting your industrial demands, helping you minimize downtime risk, and ensuring operation continuity.
Wave and Reflow Soldering
Wave and reflow soldering are fundamental processes to attach components permanently to printed circuit boards (PCBs). This process involves pre-heating the PCB and components, applying flux to remove the oxides and facilitate bonding, exposing the components to molten solder, and controlled cooling to ensure joint integrity. With such an intricate procedure in place, a few challenges can occur like oxidation of solder joints during heating, dross formation in solder bath, and thermal profile inconsistency, which can all affect the quality of the solder and impact end-product performance.
With an on-site nitrogen generator in place, you can control the atmosphere with oxygen levels below 10 ppm, ensuring a consistent process control across production runs.
Thermal Process: Annealing and Heat Treatment
Rapid thermal processing (RTP) is an essential semiconductor manufacturing technique, enabling high-temperature treatment of silicon wafers within seconds. It supports critical steps like component stress relief, dopant activation, and material property modification. However, thermal processes come with inherent risks as high temperature can lead to surface oxidation, while uneven heating can result in inconsistent stress distribution and altered material properties. These causes compromised product quality and yield across production lots.
Emergency Power Supply
Even a momentary power disruption can create a domino effect, resulting in damaged sensitive components mid-production, causing data loss, delaying deliveries, and leading to expensive reworks. In a sector that relies on precision and continuous operation, unplanned downtime isn't just inconvenient — it's downright costly. From cleanrooms to wafer fabrication and testing lines, every process depends on stable, uninterrupted power. Whether brief or prolonged, outages can compromise entire batches and impact customer trust.
That's why a robust emergency backup power plan is not optional, our rental generators are engineered for rapid deployment and reliability to ensure your critical operations stay online when it matters most.
Cleanroom Air Supply
Cleanrooms in semiconductor manufacturing have to meet strict air quality standards to maintain their ISO 14644-1 classification and keep particle counts within limits. The air supply is key to preventing contamination that can compromise highly sensitive processes like lithography, etching and deposition. Even microscopic airborne particles or molecular contamination can cause defects that affect device performance, yield and reliability. To keep these ultra clean environments up to spec, cleanrooms use constant filtration and precise control of air purity, humidity and pressure. Any variation from these parameters will cause process instability, scrap wafers and big losses.
Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)
Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) used to deposit thin films on semiconductor wafers requires very tight control of gas purity, flow rates and reaction conditions to get uniform film thickness and material integrity. Even tiny impurities in the process gases can cause defects like poor adhesion, non-uniform deposition or electrical failures in the final device. High temperature environments and reactive gases in CVD also pose safety and operational challenges, requiring equipment that can handle thermal stress while having precise pneumatic control and contamination free purging.
Dry Etching
Dry etching is a plasma-based process to create patterns on semiconductor wafers and requires very stable conditions to get repeatable etch profiles. The plasma is very sensitive to the purity and dryness of the air supplied, contaminants can affect ionization, etch rates and overall uniformity. Air quality for plasma stability can pose as a challenge, with plasma processes are very sensitive to impurities. A small amount of air contamination can disrupt ionization and cause inconsistent etch rates, non-uniform patterns and wafers to be defective.
Wafer Processing
Wafer processing has tightly controlled stages where particle control, air purity and equipment stability are key. Compressed air are used not just for pneumatic operations, but also for ISO 14644-1 cleanroom classifications and to prevent molecular contamination. Possible challenges like Oil on Wafers can cause devastating effects and even device failure. Even a tiny bit of oil contamination during wafer processing can cause irreversible defects like short circuits or layer delamination, resulting in yield loss and scrapping of entire wafer batches.
Other challenges faced by the electronics and semiconductor manufacutring industry can also include:
The P-Range Oil-free Air Compressor
Oil-free compressed air is what Atlas Copco does best and this is reflected in our fleet. Our oil-free compressors come in all shapes and sizes, with different flow rate and pressures to support different needs. Each one of them is suitable for the most critical applications and they are all ISO 8573-1 Class Zero certified by TÜV.
- Pure, condensed, dry air for optimal performance
- 100% oil-free certified, ISO 8573-1 Class Zero
Onsite Industrial Nitrogen Generators
In a lot of industries, nitrogen is as vital a utility as compressed air or power. Our Membrane nitrogen generators deliver a reliable, autonomous supply of on-site nitrogen. With a perfect integration with our compressor installations, you are sure to get a complete, streamlined and compact set up.
- Purity levels up to 99.5%
- Integrated feed air filtration system
Modular Power Stations
From single units to large-scale multi-MW setups, we have the right power solutions for you. Whether you have an emergency or required additional power for a certain period, a temporary power solution from Atlas Copco Rental give you the energy you need, when you need it. We specialize in providing a total power solution, handling your project from start to finish.
- Powerful and fuel efficient
- Plug-and-play connectivity for a simplified installation
- Compact, reliable, and quiet operations
With Atlas Copco’s rental solutions you can have the air quality and quantity you need to meet the exacting standards. Flexibility to respond to market demands while maintaining product quality and operational efficiency. With our rental equipment and subsequent accessories for a total solution, you’re not just renting a compressor, you’re buying peace of mind in an industry where quality is not optional, but a necessity.
- Flexible rental to match production peaks without fixed costs
- Scalable solutions to match production needs
- Energy efficient to reduce operational expenses
- Temporary replacement during maintenance
- 24/7 support to ensure no downtime in operations
Contact our experts today to discuss your rental needs!
