Midwest MicroDevices

Midwest MicroDevices LLC (MMD) is a Toledo-based manufacturer for the fast-growing MEMS market.  Micro-electro-mechanical systems or MEMS are tiny silicon sensors and actuators fabricated with thin-film processes similar to those used in silicon chip manufacture.  With its dedicated clean-room facilities, MMD serves the market as a Silicon Foundry, focusing entirely on the manufacture of customer products using its specialized thin-film process capabilities.  The MEMS market is large and fast-growing, with $7+ billion in 2005 world-wide sales and a projection to reach $10 billion by 2008.  MMD seeks volume growth applications in Instrumentation, Telecom, Biomedical, and Aerospace/DoD.