Align-Rite Planning $10-Million Expansion

Align-Rite International Inc. said it plans a $10-million expansion of its manufacturing operations in Europe that would boost its production capacity by more than 40%. The expansion program will be completed by July 1997.

The Burbank-based company, which has customers in 20 countries, manufactures photomasks, which are quartz or glass plates used by semiconductor manufacturers as master images to transfer circuit-board patterns onto silicon wafers.