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News Release from: Air Products
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 May 2006
Gas contracts prepare for Taiwanese fab
expansions
Air Products San Fu Gas has signed major contracts with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and Chi Mei Optoelectronics.
Air Products' subsidiary in Taiwan, Air Products San Fu Gas, has signed major contracts with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Chi Mei Optoelectronics (CMO) to serve their facilities located in Tainan Science Industrial Park (TSIP), one of the largest technology parks in the world Air Products San Fu will supply nitrogen and bulk gases to both manufacturers, and build an air separation unit (ASU) in the park to support existing and growing customer demand
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Apr 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Air Products San Fu will serve TSMC Fab 14 phase two expansion and CMO Fab 7.
TSMC Fab 14 is TSMC's second 12in wafer fab specialising in advanced 90 and 65nm process technologies.
CMO Fab 7 is a Generation 7.5 TFT-LCD manufacturing facility.
"The new contracts further solidify our long-term partnership with TSMC and CMO, as well as our leading supply position in TSIP", said Corning Painter, Vice President of Asia Electronics and North Asia.
"These contracts are the direct result of the investments we have made in expanding our global infrastructure and local supply over the years to better serve our customers in Asia".
"It is part of our long-term strategy and has positioned us so that we can quickly respond to growing customer demand and in turn grow along with our customers".
Air Products San Fu has established a leading supply position in TSIP.
Its customers in the park include: TSMC, Fab 6 and Fab 14 Phase One; United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), Fab 12A; and CMO, Fab 3, Fab 4 and the newly-signed Fab 5 and Fab 7.
Air Products San Fu serves its customers by large ultra-high purity (UHP) bulk gas production facilities and a pipeline with a total capacity exceeding 60,000m3/h.
Its main plant, with the world's largest UHP nitrogen generator, supplies the pipeline at 50,000m3/h.
This plant also produces UHP liquid nitrogen and UHP liquid oxygen for other semiconductor customers.
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