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Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (ESI) is a high technology company headquartered in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, more specifically in Washington County, in the unincorporated Cedar Mill area north of Beaverton, U.S.A. It is a developer and supplier of photonic and laser systems for microelectronics manufacturers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 ESI Financial Tear Sheet )〕 Founded in 1944, it is the oldest high-tech company in Oregon. Along with Tektronix, and later Intel, it has spawned numerous technology-based companies in the Portland area, an area known as the Silicon Forest.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Silicon Forest Universe )〕 ==History== ESI was founded in 1944〔 as Brown Engineering, later becoming Brown Electro-Measurement Corporation (BECO).〔(An Intricate History Spanning Two Centuries ) (company history). Electro Scientific Industries. Retrieved 2010-08-11.〕 In 1953, BECO's Douglas C. Strain and three other investors bought out Strain's partners at Brown and formed a new company, Electro-Measurements Inc., which used the brand name "ESI" in marketing. The acronym stood for "excellent scientific instruments",〔1959 (Electro-Measurements Inc. ) advertisement in ''The Pulse of Long Island'' (the monthly journal of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Long Island, NY, section), June 1959 issue, p. 13.〕 but the company's name remained Electro Measurements Inc. until 1959, when it was changed to "ESI, Inc." and finally in 1960 to Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (ESI).〔(A New Name! ) - 1960 advertisement in ''The Pulse of Long Island'' (the monthly journal of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Long Island, NY, section), February 1960 issue, p. 15.〕 Prior to about 2000, the company was usually referred to as having been founded in 1953.〔(1995 Annual Report (Form 10-K for 5/31/95) ) U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved 2010-08-11.〕〔 Douglas Strain was the company's CEO and board chairman from 1953 until 1980 and remained on the board (continuing as chairman until 1985, then vice chairman) until fully retiring in 1999.〔 In the 1950s, the company's specialty was the manufacture of high-precision resistance measuring instruments and related products. In 1970, ESI began developing laser trimming systems for resistor circuits,〔 and soon became a leader in this field. All facilities were located at S.E. 43rd & Stark in Portland until 1956, when the first stage of a new headquarters and manufacturing plant on Macadam Avenue, in South Portland, was opened. The new plant was destroyed by fire〔 in 1957〔"$200,000 Fire Sears Plant" (July 19, 1957). ''The Oregonian'', p. 1.〕 and had to be rebuilt. In 1962, ESI announced plans to create a new development called "Sunset Science Park", to be built in the Cedar Mill area of unincorporated Washington County, Oregon, designed to attract other technology companies, with ESI as an anchor.〔Pratt, Gerry (January 21, 1962). "Cedar Hills () Area Receives New 50-Acre Science Park". ''The Sunday Oregonian'', p. 1.〕 The company moved its headquarters to the Sunset Science Park location in 1963, and the manufacturing facilities followed in 1966, vacating the Macadam Avenue site. The complex on N.W. Science Park Drive, which remains ESI's headquarters today, has a Portland mailing address, but is not in the city of Portland proper; it occupies unincorporated land which is now adjacent to the city limits of Beaverton. ESI became a publicly traded company in 1983.〔〔''The Oregonian'', October 11, 1983.〕 The company opened its first foreign sales office in 1978, in Munich, Germany, and later opened offices in several countries in Southeast Asia. The company now has offices for direct sales in several European countries, as well. Several small companies were acquired by ESI in the late 1990s, including Dynamotion Corp. (of California) in 1997, Chip Star Inc. (California) in 1997, Applied Intelligent Systems Inc. (AISI) (Michigan) in 1997 and Testec Corp. (Arizona) in 1999. A new manufacturing facility was opened in Klamath Falls, Oregon, in early 2001. The company acquired California-based New Wave Research Inc. in 2007. At the beginning of 2009, Electro Scientific had around 700 employees, about half of whom were located in Oregon.〔 Edward C. Grady was named as the president and CEO of ESI in February 2014. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Electro Scientific Industries」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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