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SAFC Hitech Adds Cleanroom to Facility
Author: CompoundSemi News Staff

April 30, 2008... SAFC Hitech of St. Louis, Missouri USA, a focus area within SAFC, which is a member of the Sigma-Aldrich Group, announced the opening of a $9 million state-of-the-art cleanroom at the Company's Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin campus. The facility comprised of an ISO Class 4 cleanroom, a distillation suite and office space, takes up 5,000 square feet. The new facility became fully operational in late April 2008. It offers in-house trace metals analysis and the capability to clean and fill containers in a tightly-controlled environment. The Sheboygan campus was selected as the site for the new cleanroom because large-scale manufacturing of products already goes on their for the material science industry for SAFC. The facility supports the silicon semiconductor, compound semiconductor, and performance materials markets.

"One of SAFC's primary business objectives is to continue to build the SAFC Hitech segment into a global leader in the supply of ultra-pure, high quality materials and technical solutions to the electronics industries we serve," commented SAFC President, Frank Wicks. "As the demand for new and increasingly efficient materials continues to grow, so does the need to attain higher and higher levels of quality and dependability from our products." SAFC Hitech News Release

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