Business in South Korea is growing for Japanese manufacturers, coming in conjunction with the country’s expansion of LCD and OLED screens, semiconductors and smartphones as primary sectors. South Korea’s economic...
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Mitsubishi Chemical to Boost Production of Synthetic Silica Powder
Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. will increase its production capacity for synthetic silica powder. As one of the materials in semiconductor silicon wafers, single crystal ingots are produced by melting polycrystalline silicon...
OCI to Bolster Polysilicon Business in Korea, Malaysia
South Korean chemicals firm OCI Co. Ltd. is beefing up its business for polysilicon. This includes efforts at a Malaysian site recently acquired from Tokuyama Corp. (TYO:4043), where the company...
METI Raises Concerns Over Semiconductor Overproduction in China
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) released its White Paper on International Economy and Trade 2018 at a cabinet meeting on July 10. The new report sets aside...
Stella Chemifa Ponders Possibilities for Added Semiconductor Chemical Production
Stella Chemifa Corp. (TYO:4109) is looking to raise its annual production capacity for semiconductor chemicals to 100,000 tons. The amount to be invested here is estimated to total several hundred...
Sony to Invest 180B Yen Into Semiconductors
Sony Corp. (TYO:6758) is planning to make medium–long-term investments in the semiconductor sector. While sales of image sensors are growing for smartphones, the company also anticipates growth from sensing, factory...
Idemitsu Kosan Targets Big Business With Oxide Semiconductor Materials for OLED Displays
Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd. (TYO:5019) has been at work on the development of oxide semiconductor materials with superior electron mobility, aiming to bring these to early commercialization in the display...
Interview: NGK Insulators President Taku Oshima Talks Promising Market Developments for Unique Technologies
NGK Insulators Ltd. (TYO:5333) appears to be working in the right specialties at the right time, with numerous industries moving in a direction that calls for ceramics technology. Company president...
Interview: Denka CEO Manabu Yamamoto Talks Business Angles Coming for New Management Plan
Denka Co. Ltd. (TYO:4061) could be said to have a favorable hand given how economic trends are aligning with the company’s areas of business. CEO and President Manabu Yamamoto recently...
Interview: Renesas CEO Bunsei Kure Talks Upswing in Battle With Overseas Competitors
Renesas Electronics Corp. (TYO:6723) is pulling no punches in its battle with the overseas competition. Amid favorable market conditions for the company to establish its superiority, company CEO and president...
JNC Filter Plans to Launch New Filter for Semiconductor and LiB Production
JNC Filter Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of JNC Corp., is looking to target the semiconductor industry with its development of a new liquid filter. The product is able to remove...
Business in High-Purity Silicon for Semiconductors Keeps Booming
High-purity silicon for use in semiconductors is a thriving business. Demand for the material is rising across the board, from advanced semiconductors to IoT devices and advanced automotive electronics. This...
Toray Raises RFID Tag Potential with Printable CNTs
Toray Industries Inc. (TYO:3402) has achieved the highest electron mobility in the world for a printable semiconductor by combining semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with the company’s own semiconducting polymers....
Silicon Wafer Shipments up for Fourth Straight Year, Setting New Record
Business is thriving in the industry for silicon wafers, which are a core component in semiconductors. SEMI, a U.S.-based industry group for the semiconductor supply chain, announced on Feb. 7...
Japanese Manufacturers Keep Benefiting from Lively Semiconductor Materials Business
Semiconductor materials are a healthy business to be in. To illustrate the sector’s energy, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) are investing trillions of yen...
Kanto Chemical Looks to Become Taiwan’s Largest Supplier of Electronics Industry Chemicals
Kanto Chemical Co. Inc. is getting ready to make enhancements to one of its Taiwanese production bases for electronics industry chemical products. With the boom being witnessed in the local...
Chemical Industry Leader Outlooks for 2018 – Part 4: Semiconductors
The Chemical Daily recently had the opportunity to hear from chemical company executives regarding their outlooks for 2018. Continuing on from discussions on the global economy, petrochemicals, and electric vehicles,...
Sumitomo Chemical Set to Boost Photoresist Production
Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd. (TYO:4005) plans to increase its production of photoresist, a light-sensitive resin used in semiconductor production, at its Osaka Works plant within fiscal 2017. The company will...
Mitsubishi Electric to Enter New Markets, Sees Opportunities in India
Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (TYO:6503) will accelerate its efforts to develop businesses in new areas for the company, such as electric vehicles (EVs) and power semiconductor technologies for renewable energy. As...
Showa Denko Develops Heat-Resistant Aluminum Compound for Power Semiconductor Substrates
Showa Denko KK (TYO:4004) has developed a heat-resistant aluminum compound to be used in substrate material for power semiconductors. Compared to conventional aluminum materials, the product is 40 percent more...
