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CEO Interview with Francisco Almada Lobo of Critical Manufacturing

What happened

The source is an interview with Francisco Almada Lobo, CEO and co-founder of Critical Manufacturing. The company was founded in Porto, Portugal, in 2009 and builds an Industrial Operations Platform with a manufacturing execution system (MES) at its core; since 2018 it has been part of ASMPT. Its strongest application area is semiconductor back-end and advanced packaging, which it says is also where demand is growing most. It notes new capacity is being built in the US, Europe, India and Southeast Asia, and that advanced packaging moves front-end complexity into the back-end. This is background interview content; the source contains no component price movement, production halt, or policy event.

Impact and signal

Low impactImpact score: 10/100

Affected components and suppliers

Critical Manufacturing
MESadvanced packagingCEO interviewASMPTsemiconductor software

Source and time

Source: SemiWiki · 10/18/2026 · View original source

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