Making Small Look Big

  • By Alex Mahadevan
  • | 10:23 a.m. February 10, 2012
  • Strategies
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Employees constructing machines at St. Petersburg-based Plasma-Therm LLC look more like nurses than manufacturers. The workers wear caps and protective masks while fine-tuning the firm's machines, which will eventually produce microchips 200-square-microns in diameter.

 

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