ASM International N.V. completes new credit facility

BILTHOVEN, The Netherlands, March 10, 2006 - ASM International N.V. (NASDAQ: ASMI and Euronext Amsterdam: ASM) today announced the closing of a € 50 million, four-year bank credit facility with Rabobank of the Netherlands. The facility is secured by a portion of the company’s shareholding in ASM Pacific Technology Ltd., its 54%-owned subsidiary.
Naud van der Ven, chief financial officer of ASMI, " With the completion of this banking arrangement, we are taking advantage of a favorable banking climate to reinstitute the company’s practice of utilizing short-term bank credit lines in the normal course of our Front-end business.
"We are very pleased with the present arrangement as this facility represents another element in our plan to maintain and improve our financial position. While we intend to internally fund capital expenditures and to generate free cash over the next four years, this facility provides a backup for the meeting of our liquidity needs"

About ASM International
ASM International N.V., headquartered in Bilthoven, the Netherlands, and its subsidiaries design and manufacture equipment and materials used to produce semiconductor devices. ASM International and its subsidiaries provide production solutions for wafer processing (Front-end segment) as well as assembly and packaging (Back-end segment) through facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia. ASM International’s common stock trades on NASDAQ (symbol ASMI) and the Euronext Amsterdam Stock Exchange (symbol ASM). For more information, visit ASMI’s website at http://www.asm.com.

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