EDMONTON, AB; STUTTGART; MILAN (February 19, 2025)
Stantec, a global leader in sustainable design and engineering, and its partner Drees & Sommer has been selected to Silicon Box’s new €3.2 billion state-of-the-art semiconductor assembly and test facility in Northern Italy. Stantec will provide architecture for the administration areas and infrastructure design including overall permitting services.
Drees & Sommer, a global provider of single source consultation and implementation services for the real estate, infrastructure and industrial markets, is delivering industrial engineering, architecture, structural engineering, and mechanical/electrical engineering as well as clean room/dry room design services for the production and central utility buildings.
Silicon Box is an advanced semiconductor integration facility specializing in enabling chiplet architecture and high-performance packaging solutions essential for next generation semiconductors, and this project marks its first manufacturing expansion outside of Singapore.
Scheduled to begin operations in 2028, the new facility will be located close to Novara, Piedmont, and is expected to create approximately 1,600 jobs in the region. As Silicon Box’s second asset, it will emulate the company’s state-of-the-art automated flagship facility in Singapore, which offers the world’s most advanced large-format panel-level semiconductor packaging solutions.
"Silicon Box selected Stantec for its global expertise in building cutting-edge manufacturing facilities. Their partnership with Drees & Sommer highlights their dedication to excellence, and both companies bring a wealth of experience drawn from their extensive global portfolios, providing us with confidence to align with the expectations of Europe and the Italian central and local governments,” said Mike Han, Head of Business at Silicon Box. “We were impressed with Stantec’s dedication to sustainable development, which will enable Silicon Box’s Novara foundry to align with Europe’s high environmental and community standards. Our recent kick-off workshop has set a strong foundation for the design phase, and we look forward to execution.”
“The global market is looking for a more secure and robust electronics supply chain. Silicon Box’s expansion into Italy is a significant catalyst to this growing ecosystem in Europe,” said Leonard Castro, Stantec’s executive vice president for Buildings. “By uniting our local presence with global expertise in this space, we’re uniquely positioned to support Silicon Box with this expansion.”
"To meet the rising demand, semiconductor production facilities must be designed, planned, built, and commissioned on a fast-track schedule. This project exemplifies our team’s ability to achieve these objectives by leveraging our expertise in the semiconductor field and comprehensive knowledge of local building standards and approval processes," said Frank Silber, partner at Drees & Sommer.
Bringing innovation to Italy
With a goal to develop advanced technologies that are critical to scale next generation applications with lower-cost, enhanced performance and flexibility, the new facility is expected to serve as a catalyst for broader advanced manufacturing investments and innovation in Italy. It will enhance the country’s competitive strengths on key initiatives such as artificial intelligence, data centers, mobile technologies, electric vehicles, radio-frequency (RF) power amplifiers, wearables, and edge computing.
These initiatives reflect Silicon Box’s commitment to its broader investment strategy in the semiconductor industry. They also align with the Italian government and European Commission’s goals of driving innovation and building a more resilient semiconductor supply chain.
Stantec’s design, in collaboration with Drees & Sommer, will embrace the highest environmental standards, focusing on sustainability and minimizing environmental impact per the European Commission’s current and future requirements.
Drees & Sommer Uniting opposites to create a world we want to live in Drees & Sommer is a partner-managed, global consulting company providing a single source of consultation and implementation services for the real estate, infrastructure and industrial markets. The company delivers sustainable, innovative, and economically viable solutions that meet each client’s unique needs. Founded in 1970 and long recognized as a pioneer in driving sustainability and digitization, today Drees & Sommer employs more than 6,000 people at 63 offices. The company’s interdisciplinary teams are involved in around 6,500 projects worldwide, working to create a livable future and unite concepts which can at face value appear to be opposites: tradition and future, economy and ecology, analog and digital, efficiency and well-being. As ‘intrapreneurs’, the Drees & Sommer Partners are personally responsible for managing the company.
Stantec Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before. We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more. Today’s communities transcend geographic borders. At Stantec, community means everyone with an interest in the work that we do—from our project teams and industry colleagues to our clients and the people our work impacts. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We are designers, engineers, scientists, project managers, and strategic advisors. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible. Stantec trades on the TSX and the NYSE under the symbol STN. Visit us at stantec.com or find us on social media. Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This news release contains forward-looking statements regarding the initiatives and projects described above. Forward-looking statements also include any other statements that do not refer to historical facts. By their nature, forward-looking statements are based on assumptions and subject to inherent risks and uncertainties. There is a risk that the initiatives and projects described above may be delayed, cancelled, suspended, or terminated. This could cause future results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements made in this news release. Except as may be required by law, Stantec undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are provided herein for the purpose of giving information about the initiatives and projects referred to above and their expected impact. Readers are cautioned that such information may not be appropriate for other purposes.
Silicon Box Silicon Box is an advanced semiconductor packaging company, specializing in cutting-edge integration technology and manufacturing processes. We offer solutions that enable chiplet architecture, as well as high performance alternatives to traditional packaging schemes. Leveraging our proprietary technology, 30 years of multi-sectoral expertise, and relationships with best-in-class partners, we strive to solve the unique challenges of chiplet adoption in order to build the emergent technologies shaping the world around us today. Silicon Box was founded in 2021 by Dr. Byung Joon (BJ) Han, Dr. Sehat Sutardja and Weili Dai. Dr. Han was previously the Chairman, CEO and CTO of the world’s 3rd largest outsourced assembly and test provider, STATS Chippac (SSE: 600584) for two decades, taking the company to $4B in revenue during his tenure. Dr. Han is the inventor of many of the most advanced packaging solutions in today’s market, and his team at Silicon Box holds standing records for yield in advanced packaging technology at wafer level production. Dr. Sutardja introduced the concept of chiplets at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in 2015. He and Weili Dai founded Marvell Technology Group (NASDAQ: MRVL) in 1995, and ran the company for twenty years from a start-up to an over $50B market value company. |