Air Products (Lehigh Valley, Pa.; www.airproducts.com) has been awarded a long-term contract by JCET STATS ChipPAC Korea Ltd. (JSCK), a leading semiconductor packaging and test services provider, to supply tonnage quantities of nitrogen to its new production facility in Incheon, South Korea.
Air Products will build, own and operate a new on-site nitrogen plant — which is expected to come onstream in 2016 — to produce gaseous nitrogen for JSCK’s new facility located in the Yeongjongdo development area of the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ). Air Products will start supplying JSCK with liquid nitrogen from another one of its facilities beginning the middle of this year.
STATS ChipPAC is one of the leading semiconductor packaging and test services providers for many leading global customers in the communication, consumer and computing markets and is ranked fourth in the world’s packaging market with manufacturing operations in Singapore, South Korea and China. Its new production facility will use Air Products’ nitrogen for the manufacture of advanced flip chip, wirebond and 3-D packaging solutions.