SAFC Hitech to Build Facility in Taiwan

摘要

SAFC Hitech, a division of Sigma-Aldrich, says it plans to build a new facility at Kaohsiung, Taiwan for transfilling, technical service and production of light-emitting diode (LED) and silicon semiconductor precursors. The new facility is expected to become operational by late 2011, and it will extend the company’s ability to serve the Asian market, SAFC Hitech says. The new facility will leverage the capabilities developed at the company’s existing Kaohsiung facility. The existing SAFC Hitech facility at Kaohsiung handles highly-specialized laboratory-scale chemicals and features a dedicated customer support center. The new investment will add significantcapacity for the dedicated manufacturing of precursors to support the burgeoning high brightness LED (HBLED) market and precursors for the silicon semiconductor market, SAFC Hitech says. “As mass manufacturing continues its rise, we are experiencing significant increases in customer and partnership activities in the Asia/Pacific region, which aligns nicely with our core commitment to driving global expansion in the production of precursors for the rapidly expanding HBLED market,” says Philip Rose, SAFC Hitech president. “The expansion of our Kaohsiung presence is a logical next step that will help us to support these markets. By increasing our investment in local technical service capabilities and by leveraging our proprietary technologies and capabilities, we are able to increase our transfilling, production and technical services in these key markets.”