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Will corona save ASML’s Building 1?
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In February 2019, Eindhovens Dagblad reported that ASML’s first office and factory were going up to be demolished – the landmark establishment with which the litho company made a statement visible to all: we’re going to conquer the world.
It’s still there, but the plan was that the ASML building at De Run 1102 in Veldhoven would be demolished to make way for a new office. After a newspaper report in Eindhovens Dagblad, former employees were invited to take a final look. “It’s clear that the building is worn out and no longer meets the demands of our time,” concluded Wim Hendriksen on the website of Digitale Stad Eindhoven (DSE).
But the man who led ASML’s software operations in the 1990s simultaneously sparked a discussion: “Does it really need to be razed to the ground? We already have so few historic buildings in the region. The Philips factory was also saved and now transformed into the Philips Museum.”
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