29 September 2011

Linde starts up UHP nitrogen/oxygen plant in Hillsboro, Oregon

Linde North America of Murray Hill, NJ, USA, through one of its US affiliates, has expanded the capacity of its Hillsboro, Oregon, plant to supply ultra-high-purity (UHP) gaseous nitrogen and oxygen to semiconductor manufacturers in the Pacific Northwest.

As a member of Germany-based gases and engineering firm The Linde Group, Linde North America supplies products and services to the semiconductor and electronics manufacturing industries through its electronics and specialty gases business.

Linde says that the new capacity is required to meet the growing needs of semiconductor manufacturers in the greater Portland, Oregon, area, which Linde has been serving since the early 1990s. The use of UHP nitrogen and oxygen in the manufacturing process is essential to ensure products meet their extremely tight design specifications, adds the firm.

“The expansion of the Hillsboro facility represents Linde’s commitment to focus on key global customers and be a valued supplier to them no matter where they expand,” says Linde North America’s president Pat Murphy. “As technologies advance, the purity of the gases that touch the surface of the wafer becomes even more critical and the latest Linde generation of high-purity Spectra plants is at the industry forefront of the supply of UHP nitrogen and oxygen,” he claims. 

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