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Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions
recently announced their intention of

moving their corporate headquarters to
Southern Oregon.

ighthouse Worldwide Solutions, a technology company that
supplies real time contamination monitoring systems and air-
Lborne particle counters, recently announced their intention of
moving their corporate headquarters to Southern Oregon. It marks
another step in the company’s journey to make Southern Oregon
home.

Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions has had a presence in the Rogue
Valley since 2003, when they began manufacturing particle counters in
Medford. The choice made sense, says Dr. Tae Yun Kim, co-founder and
CEO of Lighthouse. “There was a pool of talent here,” she recalls, along
with the ability to run a cost-effective manufacturing facility.

“There was a lot of pressure for us to manufacture overseas,” recalls
Paul Newman, who began with Lighthouse as an intern and is now
Executive Vice President. “[But] Dr. Kim is totally committed
to manufacturing in the U.S.” Their original designs have led to
numerous applications in contamination monitoring solutions used in
semiconductor, pharmaceutical, data storage, biotechnology, aerospace
and defense industry plants around the world—industries that require
highly accurate “clean room” capabilities.

The connection to Oregon also became a personal one for Dr. Kim,
who last year announced her intention of moving Lighthouse’s world-
wide headquarters to Southern Oregon. “I fell in love with the amazing
beauty of Oregon,” she says. “Oregon offers a perfect home to let the
Lighthouse team combine their passion for technology with a focus on
providing clean healthy environments to live and grow.”

One of Lighthouse’s award-winning
particle counters used in Pharmaceutical &
Bio-tech, Semiconductor and many other
Oregon Secretary of State, Dennis industries.
Richardson welcoming Dr. Kim and her
company to Oregon.

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