Manufacturing 2019 Manufacturing Week Bus Tour | Page 5

SEH America
Vancouver
A thousand employees at SEH America grow silicon crystals in a 1.7 million-
square-foot manufacturing facility and make them into silicon wafers, the basis of
microchips. The products made here are shipped around the world. Founded in
1979, the company has always valued education. The company has developed an in-
depth internship program and pays for employees to develop skills and knowledge.
“Problem solving, fixing things — I’ve always
been good at that,” said Khalid Hassanein, 18, a
high school senior and an intern at SEH America
in Vancouver. He aspires to become a technician
or engineer at SEH. One incentive to come work
full-time at SEH America after graduation: the
company would pay for his college education.
SEH America turns raw polysilicon (upper right, held by
training and development specialist Natalie Pacholl) into
crystal ingots (above) and then into the silicon wafers
that underly the circuitry of our modern world.