Air Products Adds WF6 Capacity to Meet Increased Demand
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Air Products is expanding tungsten hexafluoride (WF6) capacity at its electronic specialty material manufacturing facility in Hometown, Pa. This production addition is aligned with the company's previously announced staged capacity plan. The new capacity shall come onstream during the first half of this year. The expansion enables Air Products to produce 60% more WF6 for the semiconductor industry, in particular, memory chip manufacturers.
The new production unit will be an exact duplicate of Air Products' existing production capabilities, including all nickel construction with automated process systems and a proprietary distillation process to remove impurities. There will be no change in raw material supply, and Air Products will continue to ship finished product in non-reactive nickel cylinders to prevent metallic impurities from contaminating the product.