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BOCÕs $75mn Taiwan investment
BOC Edwards is building seven gas plant facilities to ensure bulk gas supply to nine new semiconductor and flat panel display fabs. The gas supply schemes, paving the way for these multiple supply contracts, are being developed as part of a $75mn investment with BOC's long-term joint venture partner, BOC Lienhwa Industrial Gases (BOCLH).
BOC Edwards is building seven gas plant facilities to ensure bulk gas supply to nine new semiconductor and flat panel display fabs. The gas supply schemes, paving the way for these multiple supply contracts, are being developed as part of a $75mn investment with BOC's long-term joint venture partner, BOC Lienhwa Industrial Gases (BOCLH).
Through BOCLH, BOC Edwards will reinforce its nitrogen (N2) pipeline infrastructure by building two ultra high-purity N2 gas generator plants to supply Hsinchu Science Park in Taiwan. This investment will support bulk gas supply contracts won at four new 300mm fabs.
BOC Edwards comments that the Hsinchu Science Park accounts for some 10% of total global output of semiconductor devices, more than 80% of wafer foundry capacity, and is home to more than 325 high-tech companies.