UNSPSC 23211106: Ion implanter

A machine which accelerates the ions of a material in an electrical field and impacts them into another solid. This process is used to change the physical, chemical, or electrical properties of the solid.

UNSPSC 23211106 Ion implanter is a Commodity code that rarely appears in recent state and local procurement activity. The two posted opportunities tagged to this code do not match its nominal scope — one is a broad research-and-development goods RFP by Texas Tech University requesting laboratory equipment and microscope systems, and the other is an RFI by Santa Clara County for a lab information management system (LIMS) software platform. Neither solicitation involves ion implantation equipment or related capital instruments. State and local governments do not appear to be actively procuring ion implanters under this code at present.

The absence of direct ion-implanter activity across the recent opportunity set suggests either that the code is rarely used for state and local procurements or that issuing bodies employ alternative codes for this equipment class. Buyers of specialized research instrumentation — including universities, public health laboratories, and state research facilities — may tag acquisitions under broader research-equipment or laboratory-systems codes. If your firm manufactures or supplies ion implanters to state or local research institutions, monitoring this code for future activity is warranted, but the current signal is too sparse to support a pursue decision on the basis of recent solicitation volume.