industry scientific and technical instruments founded 1971 ; 45 years ago 1971 founder dr. lynwood swanson headquarters hillsboro oregon united states area served global key people dr. don r. kania president and ceo anthony trunzo executive vice president and cfo bradley j. thies vice president general counsel products focused ion beam scanning electron microscope transmission electron microscope dualbeam light microscope software revenue 956.3 m 2014 operating income 129.4 m 2014 net income 105.1 m 2014 number of employees 2800 2015 website www.fei.com fei company fei is an american publicly traded company that designs manufactures and supports microscope technology . headquartered in hillsboro oregon fei has over 2 800 employees and sales and service operations in more than 50 countries around the world . contents 1 history 2 operations 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit corporate headquarters the fei company was founded in 1971 as field electron and ion co. by dr. lynwood w. swanson mr. noel a. martin and mr. lloyd swenson as a supplier of electron and ion beam sources for field emission research and electron microscopy . 1 the name was shortened to fei company in 1973 . in 1978 dr. j.h. orloff who was doing research on electrostatic optics for field emission ion and electron sources joined the company as its fourth partner . swanson was a professor of applied physics at the oregon graduate center and orloff s doctoral adviser . 2 fei s introduction of the liquid metal ion beam source in 1981 led to its application in the semiconductor industry for mask repair and defect analysis . 3 the current company was formed by the 1997 merger between fei and philips electron optics 4 and the 1999 acquisition of ion beam company micrion . as such the company can trace its roots in electron microscopy to the early commercial instruments produced by philips electron optics in the 1940s . on december 20 2006 philips business electronics international b.v. sold its shares of common stock in fei company reducing its shareholding in fei to zero . in may 2011 the company announced a second straight quarter of record revenue and profits with the company totaling nearly 200 million in revenue for their second quarter . 5 the company attributed the growth to a diversification of its clientele . 6 on may 27 2016 thermo fisher scientific inc. announced its acquisition of fei company for 4.2 billion usd which will commence in early 2017 . 7 at the time of the transaction fei had more than 2700 employees in over 20 countries . 8 operations edit the products manufactured by the company include focused ion beam workstations scanning electron microscopes transmission electron microscopes and focusing columns . the company has research and development centers in hillsboro oregon ; eindhoven the netherlands ; munich germany ; shanghai china prc ; tokyo japan ; brno czech republic ; canberra australia ; trondheim norway ; and bordeaux france . it has sales and service operations in more than 50 countries . see also edit list of companies based in oregon references edit fei company company profile information business description history background information on fei company advameg inc. 2015 . j.h. orloff l.w. swanson & m.w. utlaut high resolution focused ion beams fib and its applications the physics of liquid metal ion sources and ion optics and their application to focused ion beam technology 2003 edition springer 2003 isbn 978 030647350 0 p 303 . fei history dutch company to buy 55 percent stake in fei the new york times september 6 1996 fei reports record earnings revenue . portland business journal . may 3 2011 . retrieved 6 may 2011 . siemers erik may 20 2011 . hillsboro s fei busts boundaries . portland business journal . retrieved 24 july 2011 . thermo fisher scientific acquires fei company for 4.2 billion asm international 19 jun 2016 . about fei . fei company . external links edit fei website official fei website fei facebook official fei facebook page 1 official fei linkedin company page 2 official fei google page coordinates 45 32 34 n 122 55 47 w 45.542697 n 122.92963 w 45.542697 ; 122.92963 v t e oregon based companies nyse listed greenbrier companies lithia motors nike nw natural portland general electric nasdaq listed columbia sportswear electro scientific industries erickson inc. fei flir lattice mentor graphics radisys rentrak schnitzer steel umpqua holdings private companies a dec banfield consumer cellular esco franz bakery hoffman construction infocus kindercare education laika leupold & stevens les schwab the old spaghetti factory parr lumber plaid pantry reser s fine foods roseburg forest products shari s vigor industrial other bi mart tillamook creamery western family foods list of companies based in oregon retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fei company & oldid 742918035 categories manufacturing companies established in 1971companies based in hillsboro oregonmultinational companiescompanies listed on nasdaq1971 establishments in oregonamerican companies established in 1971hidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameterscoordinates not on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages e tinanederlandsportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 6 october 2016 at 16 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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