RAITH Opens New Experience Center in Dortmund

RAITH has reached an important milestone with the opening of its new RAITH Experience Center Europe in Dortmund on May 6, 2026. The facility will serve as a central platform where visitors can experience state-of-the-art maskless nanofabrication technologies firsthand while fostering closer collaboration between industry, academia, and research institutions. As a global leader in nanofabrication technology, RAITH is further strengthening its position as a driving force for innovation and the digital future.

The opening ceremony brought together distinguished guests from politics, business, and science. Alongside the RAITH management and applications team, attendees included Dortmund’s Lord Mayor Alexander Kalouti, Prof. Dr. Michael Heuken (AIXTRON and RWTH Aachen University), and architect Elmar Gauggel. In their speeches, the speakers highlighted the importance of innovation, the semiconductor industry in North Rhine-Westphalia, and Dortmund’s successful economic transformation. A guided tour of the new Experience Center provided guests with an opportunity to explore the facility and its capabilities.

A Hub for Innovation, Technology, and Collaboration

The RAITH Experience Center is designed to be much more than a traditional showroom. It serves as a central hub for customer engagement, technology workshops, and strategic partnerships. The facility showcases RAITH’s technological expertise while providing an environment where innovative solutions in nanotechnology, semiconductor development, and materials research can be developed and tested in collaboration with international partners.

As such, the Experience Center functions both as a showcase for RAITH’s capabilities and as a meeting place for decision-makers from high-tech industries as well as research and development organizations.

Strengthening Application Development and Customer Engagement

A key focus of the new center is connecting people, technologies, and applications. Customers can experience a wide range of RAITH systems through hands-on demonstrations, gaining direct insight into the company’s technologies. At the same time, the center enables RAITH’s applications team to further expand its work on application development and customer-specific solutions.

According to RAITH CEO Dr. Michael Steigerwald, application development is a crucial element of the company’s future growth strategy. By consolidating its entire product portfolio and application specialists at a single European location, RAITH is creating an environment that supports the development of new solutions and applications. The Dortmund facility complements the company’s existing Experience Centers in the United States and Asia, forming a global network dedicated to collaboration and innovation.

With the opening of the RAITH Experience Center Europe, RAITH is entering a new chapter in its success story. The facility is intended to accelerate innovation, strengthen partnerships, and provide an open space where collaboration and technological progress can thrive.