Item 2. Properties
Item 2. Properties
We have occupied our current corporate headquarters in Fremont, California, since February 2008, under a lease that, after an amendment in January 2025, now extends through March 31, 2027.
Our new corporate headquarters for ACM Shanghai comprises of four buildings, purchased in the twelve months ended December 31, 2023. The facilities are situated in ZhangJiang E-Park located in the ZhangJiang Science City part of the Pudong district of Shanghai, where ACM Shanghai conducts sales, marketing, R&D and administrative activities. Additional research and development, service support operations and administrative activities are conducted at a multi-story office building located on Cailun Road in the ZhangJiang Science City in Shanghai. This facility has been leased since 2007 and currently extends until December 31, 2025.
In addition, we perform sales support, customer service operations, R&D, and/ or production activities from leased facilities in Beijing, Chengdu, Jiangyin and Wuxi in mainland China and Icheon in Korea.
We conduct manufacturing, warehousing and R&D operations at three leased facilities located in the Chuansha area of Shanghai located about ten miles from ACM Shanghai's headquarters. The first facility includes a total of 103,318 square feet, of which 100,000 square feet are allocated for production, with a lease which extends until January 15, 2028. The second facility includes a total of 106,076 square feet of which 100,000 square feet are allocated for production, and the lease extends unti l July 15, 2025. The third facility includes a total of 105,970 s quare feet which provides additional manufacturing and w arehousing space, and subsequent to December 31, 2024, the lease w as extended until December 31, 2027.
In May 2020 ACM Shanghai, through its wholly owned subsidiary ACM Lingang, entered into an agreement for a 50-year land use right in the Lingang region of Shanghai. In July 2020 ACM Lingang began a multi-year construction project for a new development and production center. Construction of t he five-building complex which comprises more than 1,485,000 square foot of floor space in aggregate is nearly completed, and is intended to incorporate state-of-the-art manufacturing systems and automation technologies and provide the floor space to significantly increase production capacity and support additional research and development activities when fully-staffed and supplied.
In connection with the Lingang facility project, on October 28, 2020, a wholly owned subsidiary of ACM Lingang entered into Shanghai Public Rental Housing Overall Pre-Sale Contracts with Shanghai Lingang Industrial Zone Public Rental Housing Construction and Operation Management Co., Ltd. for an aggregate price to us of approximately $40 million. ACM Lingang’s subsidiary received ownership of the apartment units and corresponding land use rights in January 2022 as part of a pilot project of public rental housing in the “rent before sale” park in the Lingang Industrial Zone. The contracts stipulate that, for a ten-year term, ACM Lingang’s subsidiary is obligated to manage the apartment units for public rental use in accordance with public rental housing standards and must rent the apartment units to employees of ACM Shanghai and its subsidiaries who work in the Lingang Industrial Zone. After that ten-year period expires, ACM Lingang’s subsidiary may use the apartment units as stock of commercial housing and may sell them separately in sets.
Effective April 1, 2023, we entered an agreement to lease a 10,683 square foot facility in Hillsborough, Oregon beginning April 1, 2023 until August 31, 2030. The facility is being used for our U.S.-based sales and services team to support customer activities in the region.
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On October 1, 2024, we acquired a commercial facility, comprised of 39,500 square foot total floor space and which includes a 5,200 square foot functional clean room, for a price of $7.75 million. This facility is located in the City of Hillsboro in Oregon, and is intended to further expand our research and development and demonstration capabilities in the United States market.