MOSCOW (MRC) -- Linde has entered into a long-term agreement with Samsung Electronics to supply ultra-high purity industrial gases for the South Korean tech giant’s latest semiconductor facilities in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, said the company.
Currently the main supplier of industrial gases to Samsung’s existing facilities in Pyeongtaek, Linde said this second agreement will see the company build, own and operate air separation plants in Samsung’s latest world-class manufacturing complex.
Once the project is commissioned, the Pyeongtaek complex will be Linde’s single largest gases supply site in the world for an electronics customer.
Samsung’s new facility will deploy state-of-the-art technologies to accelerate the company’s next-generation chip design and production, in order to meet the rising demand for semiconductors around the world.
"We are proud to have been selected yet again to supply Samsung’s world-class semiconductor facilities, shortly after the safe and on-time delivery of our previous project,” said B.S. Sung, Head of South Korea, Linde.
“Our successful partnership spans more than 42 years and we look forward to continue providing Samsung with a safe, reliable and cost-effective supply of industrial gases and innovative technologies well into the future."
As MRC informed earlier, Linde GmbH and Shell have announced an exclusive collaboration agreement on ethane-oxidative dehydrogenation (E-ODH) technology for ethylene production. The catalytic process is an alternative route to ethane steam cracking, offering the potential of economic advantages, acetic acid co-production and significantly lower overall carbon footprint through electrification of power input.
Ethylene and propylene are feedstocks for producing PE and polypropylene (PP).
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 1,594,510 tonnes in the first nine months of 2020, up by 1% year on year. Only high denstiy polyethylene (HDPE) shipments increased. At the same time, PP shipments to the Russian market reached 880,130 tonnes in the nine months of 2020 (calculated using the formula: production minus exports plus imports, exluding producers' inventories as of 1 January, 2020). Supply increased exclusively of PP random copolymer.
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