AIT expands manufacturing in Pflugerville

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AIT expands manufacturing in Pflugerville

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By Kathryn Eakens Monday, 23 November 2009

PFLUGERVILLE — Advanced Integration Technologies will receive $146,000 in incentives from the Pflugerville Community Development Corporation for the recent relocation of the company’s gas panel production from Fremont, Calif., to Pflugerville.

Formerly known as Integrated Flow Systems, AIT has been in operation in Pflugerville since 2007 and is a contracted manufacturer for companies like Applied Materials. Gas panels control the flow of gas and are used on machinery such as semiconductors. The company’s headquarters is located in Chandler, Ariz.

Prior to the relocation of the company’s gas panel production, AIT employed 14 full-time and nine part-time employees in Pflugerville.

Under the incentive agreement—approved in July by the PCDC board of directors and the Pflugerville City Council—once the employee count reaches 23 and the company manufactures its first gas panel in the city, PCDC will pay AIT $100,000 toward capital costs and an additional $46,000 in incentives.

PCDC Economic Development Director Charles Simon said the company’s Pflugerville location now employs 59 people and manufactured its first gas panel in the city earlier this month, meeting the conditions set forth in the agreement. Simon said PCDC is preparing to make funds available to AIT now that the company qualifies for the incentives.

The PCDC has also agreed to pay an additional $2,000 for each full-time job created once the employee count reaches 23, up to a maximum of 80 employees—which amounts to an additional $114,000 that could be paid out over the next three years.

“Several things that the PCDC likes to do and tries to do were well represented in this agreement. We like to get the word out about what we can do and this is one of Pflugerville’s existing companies that had a good idea of how they could expand their business locally,” Simon said. “They saw the coverage of Directed Manufacturing’s relocation to the city and came to us and asked if we could work with them to get that operation here, and we helped them.”