A South Korean company that supplies Tesla Inc. is inching closer to a transformative project south of Austin that could make the company Buda’s largest private-sector employer. About one month after the Austin Business Journal first revealed that Futronic USA Inc. — a subsidiary of Korea-based Futronic Co. Ltd. — was approved by the Buda City Council for $600,000 […]
Rhys Andersen’s first introduction to precision manufacturing came in 2018. His friends who worked in the semiconductor industry described a hole in the market for large-parts manufacturing, as most of it was done out of state by just a few companies, leading to long lead times and production bottlenecks. While he didn’t know much about machining, he […]
A global company that provides tool support for semiconductor fabrication facilities plans to grow its presence in the United States, starting with its domestic headquarters in Buda. PTW America LLC, a subsidiary of Singapore-based PTW Group, is honing in on the chipmaking boom in the Austin area. PTW — a one-stop shop that helps chipmakers with legacy tools, […]
