| The electronics industry in China is massive and thriving. Experts predict that the booming domestic market will account for 16 percent of total global output by 2007. To meet growing demands for specialty and electronics gases in China and East Asia, Linde Gas opened a new gas plant in Suzhou, near Shanghai, in May.
This ultra-modern plant will purify and fill semiconductor-grade gases and chemicals on a 35,000 square metre plot in the Suzhou High Tech Park. Linde Gas will source the raw chemical products from various chemical suppliers worldwide and process these materials using proprietary, state-of-the-art purification processes and equipment.
Some of the customers already using products from the Linde Suzhou plant include Suntech (solar cells), CSWC (wafer fab), BOE-Hydis (TFT LCDs) and QL (epitaxy). A number of major international wafer fabs in Taiwan, China and Korea are conducting trials to qualify products from the Linde Suzhou facility. |
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