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The new Asia Technical Center at Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials’ CMP Technologies division in Hsinchu, Taiwan has received its first volume order for CMP pads. This order is significant as it is the first order received for the company’s IC 1000 line of CMP pads that will be manufactured entirely at the Hsinchu site.
The order was placed by an unnamed Asia-based memory manufacturer, and marks the first order for Rohm and Haas since it received certification and became operational in its front-end polymerization process. The company’s IC1000 and IC1000 AT pads and VISIONPADS are at the qualification stage with numerous manufacturers in the region.
“This order highlights the value that Rohm and Haas’s new facility brings to its customers in the Asia Pacific region,” said Sam Shoemaker, Vice President and Business Unit Director for Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Technologies. “We have always offered industry leading products and service, but our new regional ability to take customers through process development and enhancement, qualification and complete pad production from polymerization to finishing takes us to an entirely new level that is unmatched in the industry. We have significantly improved response and turnaround times for our Asian customers, and the Hsinchu facility has the capacity to supply all of Asia's pad demands.”
