Semiconductors

Air Products has clinched a contract to build a nitrogen (N2) plant for the Tianjin facility of Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC).

Air Products has announced that it has received multiple, long-term supply awards from semiconductor and flat panel display manufacturers in China as the country’s electronics manufacturing industry continues to boom.

Air Products has clinched a contract to supply industrial gases to a new memory fab in Quanzhou City of Fujian Province, China.

Versum Materials, Inc., a materials supplier to the semiconductor industry, has announced that it has broken ground on a multimillion-dollar project at its chemical manufacturing site in its hometown, Pennsylvania.

Air Products has commissioned a new plant in Chongqing City, western China, to support the country’s burgeoning electronics manufacturing industry.

Sumitomo Cryogenics of America Inc. (SCAI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. (SHI), has acquired a leading-edge vacuum measurement instrumentation manufacturer.

Edwards Limited, manufacturer of integrated vacuum and abatement solutions, is now part of the newly-formed Vacuum technique business area at Atlas Copco.

CVD Equipment Corporation has appointed Emmanuel Lakios to the newly-created position of Vice-President of Sales and Marketing.

Rotarex SA has announced that it will exhibit at SEMICON China 2017 to present its range of ultra-high purity gas cylinder valves and its complete range of UHP gas control equipment.

In a bid to support increasing demand, Air Products has announced it will increase its nitrogen (N2) production to serve an existing customer’s semiconductor plant in Pyeongtaek City.