Fujifilm starts full-scale operation of its production facility for basic material used in semiconductor manufacturing process.
FUJIFILM Corporation announced that its new production facility for CMP slurries, a basic material used in semiconductor manufacturing process, at its Kumamoto site has begun full-scale operation.
The new facility was installed by FUJIFILM Electronic Materials Co., Ltd. (FFEM), the core company that leads Fujifilm’s Electronic Materials business, with an investment of approximately ¥2 billion ($13.5 million/ €12.4 million) at the Kyushu site of FUJIFILM Material Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (FFMT Kyushu), a display materials production site located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.
Demand for semiconductors is expected to increase and performance is projected to advance against the backdrop of faster and higher communication speeds with 5G/6G, the spread of automated driving, AI and the metaverse. Under these circumstances, it is increasingly important to ensure a stable supply of higher quality and higher performance semiconductor materials used in the semiconductor manufacturing process.
CMP slurries are polishers for evenly levelling semiconductor surface, which contain a mixture of wires and insulation films of varying hardness. The market is growing at a rate of 10% per annum. Fujifilm has CMP slurries production facilities in Arizona, USA and Cheonan, South Korea as well as in Hsinchu of Taiwan and is expanding CMP slurries sales by continuing to meet customers’ high demands for stable supply and quality.
By producing CMP slurries domestically in Japan, Fujifilm said it is now able to supply CMP slurries to its domestic customers in a timely manner. Fujifilm now has a total of four sites worldwide with enhanced production capacity to meet the growing global market.
In addition, FFMT Kyushu plans to start operation of a state-of-the-art facility to produce colour filter materials for image sensors in the spring of 2025, expanding its semiconductor materials production line-up.
