Hynix Semiconductor, a provider in the memory industry, is extending its Chinese and South Korean fabs capacities in order to meet.

Air Liquide is expanding its long term carrier gas agreement with the Hynix-Numonyx joint-venture at its giant wafer fab in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, 100 kilometers from Shanghai. In order to fulfill the rapidly increasing demand in ultra pure nitrogen, Air Liquide China will invest in two Ultra High Purity Nitrogen (HPN) generators as well as expand the oxygen, argon, hydrogen, helium and compressed dry air supply to the Hynix-Numonyx 300-mm wafer fabs dedicated to NAND flash memories. The total investment will be around 35 million.

In South Korea, Hynix has also choosen Air Liquide as its partner for the equipment and installation of bulk electronics specialty gas dispensing systems for its new 300 mm fab located in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province, about 130 km south-east of Seoul.

These two situations are perfectly aligned with the partnership in which Air Liquide supplies Hynix in Eugene, Oregon (United States), Icheon and Cheongju (South Korea), and Wuxi (China).

M.C. Kim, Vice-President and Chief Procurement Officer of Hynix Semiconductor, said, These increases in capacity are in line with our strategy to expand our 300 mm output and to maximize our production efficiency. Air Liquide is a long time partner which has already supported our projects throughout the world. Its reliability and efficiency have stood the test of time and we are delighted to collaborate with them again on this project.

Christophe Fontaine, Vice-President Electronics of Air Liquide, said, Our long term relationship with Hynix allows us to fully understand our customer s requirements and expectations and we are very excited to work with them on those projects. We always provide Hynix with state of the art solutions at competitive prices and it is our pleasure to be able to accompany and support our Korean partner s growth in new countries.

Source：ICIS News