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SHANGHAI ─ February 27, 2024 ─ With China leading the global semiconductor industry in the production capacity expansion, SEMICON China 2024 is gearing up to host industry visionaries and leaders March 20-22 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre for insights into the latest developments, trends and innovations in areas critical to industry...
Revolutionary technology engineered by Atotech drives the zinc nickel plating industry towards sustainability by drastically reducing water consumption, waste, wastewater, and carbon footprint Berlin, Germany, July 28, 2023 – MKS Instruments announced the release of the Atotech CMA Closed-Loop System for alkaline zinc nickel plating. Certified by TÜV Rheinland, this...
The idea of semiconductor manufacturing becoming a trillion-dollar industry is astounding, exciting, or worrisome, depending on your viewpoint. Growth in the sector will provide jobs and create products that will make life better for millions of people. But the more chips we make, the higher the environmental impact of their...
Two interesting pieces of climate news emerged in the second week of January 2023. The first was a report in the Wall Street Journal about the cost of damage due to climate incidences. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this week that weather-related disasters caused $165 billion of...
My last post here asked the question, are your products toxic? Perhaps I should have said your products are toxic. What do you plan to do about that? Removing even one toxic compound from semiconductor manufacturing takes much longer than expected. Leaded or Unleaded? Lead in solder is an excellent...
Do you know how many individual elements and chemical compounds are required to make a circuit board? I don’t. There are dozens, perhaps more. The list covers much of the periodic table. Making the semiconductor industry supply chain more environmentally responsible involves considering how we extract, produce, use, and dispose...
Today is Earth Day, April 22. What’s so special about Earth Day? Shouldn’t we care about our planet every day? Earth Day is special for me personally because it’s also the anniversary of the day I became a published author. My first book, Material Value, came out on April 22,...
Semiconductor manufacturing involves many “chemicals of concern,” or compounds that are hazardous to human health and the environment. The hazardous compounds fall into several categories: Solvents—etchants, cleaners, and similar substances that are rinsed off the wafer Process chemicals—solids, liquids, or gases that undergo chemical reactions to form either sacrificial or...
UniCoat®, the ideal solution for applicators producing a wide variety of painted components with wet paint or powder paint BERLIN, July 2021: Atotech, a leading global supplier of specialty surface-finishing solutions, announces the global launch of UniCoat® CTR, our next-generation single step cleaner coater process for multi-metal paint applications. Based...
In my day job in the winter, I work in the ski industry, which is working very hard on sustainability and becoming greener. On Earth Day, my inbox was filled with how companies that supply the ski industry are being sustainable, and more importantly are working to drive awareness in...
