March 14th, 2012
In a celebratory event held March 15, SAFC Hitech officially opened the latest addition to its global manufacturing footprint, a 270,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility located in Kaohsiung, Taiwan that provides significant capacity increases for the high-volume manufacturing of high-quality TMG, TEG and TMI precursors for HBLED applications. The site will also produce ALD and CVD precursors for the silicon semiconductor market and offer regional transfilling capability and technical service and support.
The opening of the new Kaohsiung facility reinforces Taiwan as a vital strategic regional hub from which to leverage SAFC Hitech’s existing proprietary knowledge and capabilities as a leading provider of ultra-high purity metalorganic and silicon precursors for thin film deposition production processes. The opening of the new facility follows the March 2010 production expansion for TMG at SAFC Hitech’s Bromborough, UK manufacturing site.
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September 14th, 2011
In the September 2011 issue of the UK’s Speciality Chemicals magazine, SAFC Hitech’s Geoff Irvine and Xioahong Chen talk about the electronic chemicals market, and how materials innovation continues to enable to microelectronics market overcome new challenges, such as the migration to new materials within the semi space.
The article also focuses in on the importance of supply chain integrity, which was brought into sharp focus by the tragic events in Japan in March, when the earthquake and tsunami severely impacted the Japanese electronics supply chain. Finally, the article looks at strategic partnership0s and investments, and in particular where SAFC Hitech has worked to bring additional capacity online to service current and future needs in key areas.
You can read the full article on pages 12 and 13 of Speciality Chemicals here.
July 26th, 2011
C&EN’s lead subject in their July 11 issue was electronic chemicals. We contributed to two of the lead editorial pieces. The first article , by Alex Tullo, looks at the rise of LEDs in applications such as displays, TVs and lighting, and how manufacturers of trimethylgallium (TMG), a key raw material used in LED and HBLED production, are adding capacity to meet the boom in demand.
Tullo writes that “LEDs have spurred the precursor’s enormous growth over the past few years—25 to 30% annually by most accounts. Asif Anwar, director of the GaAs and compound semiconductor service at the consulting group Strategy Analytics, forecasts that the LED market will grow at Read the rest of this entry »
May 25th, 2011
In February of this year, SAFC Hitech Chief Technology Officer Ravi Kanjolia spoke at the Strategies in Light conference in Santa Clara as part of a session that sought to address manufacturing issues and strategies for LEDs, chaired by Solid State Technology’s Pete Singer. The session examined some of the challenges facing the industry as it seeks to meet the demands of high volume LED production for use across an increasingly wide a variety of applications, including backlight illumination in flat panel displays and TVs, solid state and architectural lighting and so on.
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