Praxair, Inc has sold its advanced components business to FM Industries, Inc. of Fremont, California. FM Industries is a wholly owned subsidiary of NGK Insulators of Japan.
David Strauss, Managing Director of Praxair’s Electronic Materials Business commented, “We were pleased to have worked with FMI on this transaction and believe these assets and offerings are a good fit for their business going forward.”
He added, “Praxair remains committed to the electronics market and will continue to actively pursue opportunities in the semiconductor, display and photovoltaic industries with our gases and materials-science products and services.”
The advanced components business designs, engineers, manufactures and supplies electrostatic chucks (ESCs) and critical chamber components for semiconductor processing equipment. ESCs are used in etch, chemical vapour deposition and physical vapour deposition tools, ion implanters and metrology tools.
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