Air Liquide (AL) is recently taking advantage of this growth with two important successes.
InnoLux Display Corporation has signed an agreement with AL for the supply of ultra pure gases to its future TFT-LCD fab in Hsin-Chu Southern Science Industrial Park. As part of the agreement, AL will supply ultra pure carrier gases, including nitrogen produced locally by an on-site High Purity Nitrogen (HPN) generator.
Operations are expected to start in 2009.
ChiMei Optoelectronics has also awarded AL a long-term contract to provide ultra pure nitrogen from an on-site generator and carrier gases (oxygen, argon, helium and hydrogen) for its new fab in Luchu, Kaohsiung. AL will also provide and install Electronics Specialty Gases dispensing equipment. The two HPN generators will be designed and built at AL’s Japanese site located in Harima, near Kobe. Total investments amount to €15 million. In 2007, Taiwan became the world’s leading manufacturer of flat panel displays, with about 45% of the global production.
