Seagate Technology Inc is to begin construction this autumn of a third multi-million dollar world-class wafer fabrication plant in Bloomington, Minnesota, at the base that is part of the operations Seagate bought from the former Control Data Corp. The 225,000 square foot plant is scheduled to begin production in January 1997 and will employ about 500 people making the latest generation of inductive thin-film and magnetoresistive heads. Process technologies will include molecular ion milling, electroplating, photolithography, vacuum deposition and reactive chemical etching. Seagate currently has two wafer fabrication plants – the recently expanded Springtown plant in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and Recording Head Operations in Bloomington.Meantime on the Seagate software front, two of the company’s acquisitions, NetLabs Inc and Network Computing Inc, both involved in network management, have merged to create Seagate Enterprise Management Software, which bringing together network management for Unix with management for NetWare and for Windows NT in a new Cupertino base – NetLabs employed 70 in Los Altos, Network Computing 25 in Santa Clara, all trivial distances apart.
