Danbury semiconductor-components maker ATMI Inc. is building another plant in South Korea to better serve its Asian microchip customers, authorities say.
ATMI Chairman, President and CEO Doug Neugold joined South Korean officials and ATMI customers at a groundbreaking ceremony Friday for the 118,000-square-foot plant in JangAn, Gyeonggi province, the company said.
Size of ATMI’s investment wasn’t disclosed.
The facility is due to open in the second-half of 2013, with about 100 workers.
ATMI also announced completion of its fifth global High Productivity Development Center — and the third in Asia — located inside the facilities of the Korea Advanced Nano Fab Center in Suwon. Danbury also is home to another of the five; the others are in San Jose, Calif.; Kyoto, Japan; and Hsinchu, Taiwain.
“Our manufacturing investments in South Korea will strengthen our supply chain and improve our interactions with leading customer,’’ Neugold said in a statement.
ATMI’s photolithography technology and equipment is used to overlay microcircuitry onto silicon wafers.
