RTI International is selling its semiconductor technology group as well as a building that houses the unit’s operations in RTP to Florida-based Micross Components.

Some 26 RTI employees are affected by the sale.

“No one is losing their job,” an RTI spokesperson said.

Financial terms were not disclosed “since these are both privately held entities<‘ the spokesperson added.

The group is called Microsystem Integration and Packaging. It provides what RTI calls “semiconductor processing techniques.”

Micross focuses on the defense and medical electronics sector.

“For some time we have been thinking about the future growth of our electronics and applied physics segment, which provides value-added semiconductor processing services for government and commercial clients,” said RTI International CEO Wayne Holden in announcing the sale.

“This acquisition supports RTI’s long-term strategy and will stimulate faster growth for the microsystems fabrication part of the business, allowing that business to capitalize on the opportunities that exist in the defense and medical electronics industries in the U.S,” he added.

The building that’s part of the deal is the Advanced Technology Building on Cornwallis Road.

RTI noted that other tenants “will continue to be able to sublease space from Micross,” RTI also will continue to lease some space there.

“Micross is an exceptional organization that complements our ­­­­Microsystem Integration and Packaging group’s line of research and technology and that will provide these staff members with the resources and opportunities to help ensure their continued success in the future,” said Terri Lomax, executive vice president of Discovery, Science, and Technology at RTI.

Micross has some 400 employees in the U.S. and Eruope. It’s headquarters is located in Orlando.It provides hi-reliability electronic solutions for defense, space, medical, industrial and other demanding industries.