Trade News
Taichung, Taiwan, August 25, 2016 – Technology company The Linde Group is opening their new Electronics R&D Center in Taichung, Taiwan on September 1. The event will be attended by invited customers, partners and employees.
Linde has invested approximately EUR 5m in total to establish a new electronics hub in Asia Pacific, which will support local customer and development partners with its state-of-the-art analytical and product development laboratory.
The center is part of an ongoing expansion and investment in the Asia Pacific area for Linde Electronics. Last year Linde announced the world’s largest on-site fluorine plant to supply SK Hynix, which follows successful fluorine implementations at all SK Hynix production sites. This year Linde announced that they have been awarded multiple wins of gas and chemical supply for a number of world-leading photovoltaic cell manufacturers’ first plants in Southeast Asia. Linde is also building its in-house special gases capability to complement customers’ increasing localized supply chain.
The Linde Electronics R&D Center will be used for improvement of product quality through advanced analytical technologies, purification and packaging, applications and new materials development with local partners and customers, development of local supply chains and support of local special gases manufacturing capabilities.
Linde assists customers in realizing continual 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. These material developments are enabled by Linde’s analytical techniques and by quality control systems that verify compositions and manage impurities.
The Taiwan center lab has the capabilities to provide advanced analytical techniques for full characterization of materials through analytical ‘fingerprinting’. This capability will be used to help ensure that the complexity of new material introduction is efficiently managed with our customers.
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. The Vice President of ITRI, Jia-Ruey Duann, stated “ ITRI Values the cooperation on Electronic Specialty Gases (ESG) Production & Analysis with The Linde Group, and we look forward to working together to develop new products and services that benefit Taiwan’s electronics industry."
“Inventiveness and innovation are ingrained in Linde’s DNA. The official opening of the Electronics R&D center in Taiwan provides further proof of the importance of Asia for our electronics business and our customer-centric approach to development. This latest investment in our R&D capabilities in the region sends a strong signal confirming Asia’s role as an innovation hub for Linde and our development partners.” commented Sanjiv Lamba, Member of the Executive Board of The Linde Group, Chief Operating Officer of Asia Pacific.
Linde has existing R&D centers in the US, Europe and China supporting the application activities in those regions. These centers will collaborate in global and local R&D initiatives through the sharing of technology, training and capability building in applications technology development.
“As a leading global technology company, sustained research and development is vital to Linde’s long-term business success and the success of our customers. Our innovations can have wide ranging benefits for our customers such as increase energy efficiency, improve product quality, lower emissions and advance safety. Linde’s drive for continued innovation helps us to discover new applications for our gases, and ensuring that we are close to our customers enables us to better understand their needs and better support and improve their processes. This is the vision of the Linde Electronics R&D Center in Taiwan, which will form an important part of Linde Technology APAC and Linde’s global research network,” says Dr. Christian Bruch, Member of the Executive Board of The Linde Group.