Avantor Performance Materials dedicates Taiwan technology center

CENTER VALLEY, USA: Avantor Performance Materials formally dedicated its new Taiwan Technology Center in Chubei City, Taiwan on September 20, 2011, in a ceremony attended by more than 100 members of the electronics manufacturing industry.

Avantor manufactures and markets high-performance specialty chemistries and materials around the world, providing products widely used in electronics and photovoltaic manufacturing; biotechnology and pharmaceutical production; medical diagnostics; and in research, academic and quality control laboratories.

The Taiwan Technology Center is designed to be a “virtual fab,” enabling real-time process simulation, testing and analysis. Customers will now be able to use Avantor’s state-of-the-art equipment to test chemistries and materials in a class 100 cleanroom fab environment, rather than disrupting operations by taking their own production equipment off-line for testing purposes.

The Technology Center’s staff includes top materials scientists, applications engineers and commercial development team members, who will conduct customer demonstrations, perform process of record (POR) development and support Avantor’s global electronics technologies development.

In his remarks at the opening ceremony, Avantor president and CEO, Jean-Marc Gilson, highlighted the leading role the Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing community has assumed in the development of next-generation architectures and processes for the global semiconductor industry.

“As one of the world’s centers for semiconductor manufacturing, Taiwan is setting new standards for innovation across the electronics industry,” Gilson said. “Our new global innovation strategy is to bring all the necessary resources to places, like Taiwan, where technology development is taking place. That is the fundamental reason we built our new Technology Center here.”

Gilson noted that the Taiwan Technology Center is the model for a planned network of global innovation centers. Avantor currently has applications or research and development laboratories in the United States, Korea and the Netherlands.