CARLSBAD, Calif. — Air Products and Chemicals Inc. today announced it has teamed with E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. to form a joint venture in polishing materials for semiconductor manufacturing.

The trend of alliances between major players in the semiconductor industry continues as two more companies team up to sell consumable materials to chipmakers. Wilmington, Del.-based DuPont and Air ...

Entegris is facing significant headwinds primarily from lackluster due diligence by management for the acquisition of CMC Materials. A major headwind is coming from plummeting sales of memory devices, ...

Aurora, IL, Jan. 24, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (Nasdaq:CCMP), the world's leading supplier of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing slurries and a growing ...

Fujifilm is rapidly expanding its production of semiconductor materials in Kyushu, Japan. In addition to increasing the production capacity of chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurries at its ...

A fundamental component of modern electronic goods is the semiconductor. More powerful, faster and smaller processors are in constant demand for many services and goods because of the advent of the ...

Japanese conglomerate Fujifilm has opened a new facility for the production of Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) slurries, a basic material used in semiconductor manufacturing process. CMP slurries ...

Effective fabrication of complex, high performance semiconductor devices is highly dependent on the use of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP). This process is used to planarize the wafer surface ...

The semiconductor manufacturing industry continues to progress rapidly, with standards, materials and requirements evolving annually. Industry leaders leverage novel solutions to overcome their ...

Japan-based Fuso Chemical, the global leader in semiconductor CMP slurries with a 90% market share, is set to invest JPY 50 billion (US$350 million) in a significant production expansion. Despite the ...