SAFC Hitech Expands Sheboygan Facility With State-Of-The-Art Manufacturing Cleanroom

05-02-2008: SAFC Hitech(TM), a focus area within SAFC(R), a member of the Sigma-Aldrich Group, underlined its commitment to the electronic materials markets with the opening of a $9 million state-of-the-art cleanroom located on the Company's Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin campus. The 5,000 square foot facility consists of an ISO Class 4 cleanroom, a distillation suite and office space.

The new facility, which became fully operational in late April 2008, provides 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 as it already provides large-scale manufacturing of products for the material science industry for SAFC, which supports the silicon semiconductor, compound semiconductor and performance materials markets.

The extension of the Sheboygan campus enables SAFC Hitech to produce, package and analyze its products in one location, completing the total supply chain, eliminating the need to use outside facilities and ensuring customers an uninterrupted supply of the highest quality materials required for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

"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," said 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."