Amtech to Exhibit at 2010 Intersolar North America and SEMICON West Solar Trade Shows in San Francisco July 13-15

TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Amtech Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASYS), a global supplier of production and automation systems and related supplies for the manufacture of solar cells, semiconductors, and silicon wafers, today announced that the Company and its subsidiaries will exhibit at the 2010 Intersolar North America and SEMICON West solar and semiconductor industry trade shows taking place July 13-15 in San Francisco, California at the Moscone Center.

Amtech and its solar subsidiaries, Tempress Systems, Inc., and R2D Automation, will exhibit at Intersolar North America 2010 at Moscone Center West Hall (Booth #9023).

Amtech and its Bruce Technologies, Inc. and P.R. Hoffman Machine Products Inc. subsidiaries will exhibit at SEMICON West 2010 at Moscone Center North Hall (Booth #2433).

More information can be found at http://www.intersolar.us/ and http://www.semiconwest.org.

About Amtech

Amtech Systems, Inc. manufactures capital equipment, including silicon wafer handling automation, thermal processing equipment and related consumables used in fabricating solar cells and semiconductor devices. Semiconductors, or semiconductor chips, are fabricated on silicon wafer substrates, sliced from ingots, and are part of the circuitry, or electronic components, of many products including solar cells, computers, telecommunications devices, automotive products, consumer goods, and industrial automation and control systems. The Company's wafer handling, thermal processing and consumable products currently address the diffusion, oxidation and deposition steps used in the fabrication of solar cells, semiconductors, MEMS and the polishing of newly sliced silicon wafers.

    Source: Amtech Systems, Inc.

Released July 7, 2010