ASML machines make computer chips - with technology so advanced the firm is caught in geopolitical rivalry.
This illustration shows the complex interior of an ASML EUV machine - the extreme ultraviolet light is in purple
The light is then shrunk and focussed using advanced optics and the pattern is etched onto a photosensitive silicon wafer. Sander Hofman from ASML likens it to using pens with different tips: "Because of the small wavelength, that means that you basically are using a fine liner to draw these lines of integrated circuitry - instead of older generation machines which use maybe a marker pen."
Technician, Bram Matthijssen was putting together one of ASML's latest designs when we visited the factory. Mr Matthijssen works in one of the cleanest environments on the planet. Those sales, plus income from the management and upgrading of existing machines, made the company 21.2bn euros last year.
ASML has been working on its highest specification machines since the early 2000's, leaving other companies in the field with quite a bit of catching up to do.
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