The Linde Group (Munich, Germany; www.linde.com) has opened its new electronics R&D center in Taichung, Taiwan on September 1st. The company has invested approximately 5 million euros to establish the center, which will support local customers and development partners with its state-of-the-art analytical and product development laboratory.
The R&D center is part of an ongoing expansion and investment in the Asia Pacific region for Linde Electronics. Last year Linde commissioned the world’s largest on-site fluorine plant to supply SK Hynix, in addition to bringing multiple new electronics projects on-stream in Asia. This year Linde announced that they have been awarded multiple gas and chemical supply wins for a number of world-leading photovoltaic cell manufacturers in Southeast Asia.
Linde assists customers in realizing continuous technology progress through improvements in the ability to reduce chemical variability in existing products and in the development of new materials that are critical to support customers technology roadmaps. The Linde Electronics R&D Center will be used for improvement of product quality through advanced synthesis, purification, packaging and new applications development. These improvements are enabled by Linde’s advanced analytical processes and quality control systems that verify compositions and manage impurities.
In recognizing the growing need to collaborate with key regional partners, Linde will also be strengthening their local research network. As a first important step, Linde will be entering into a collaboration agreement with the Industry Technology Research Institute (ITRI) in Taiwan.
Working closely with local research partners and customers the new center will also support development of local supply chains and local special gases manufacturing capabilities.