We are here in Singapore at the Air Liquide Advanced Materials center built for Micron. Located on the western shore of the island state, a couple of miles away from its gleaming center, the facility is an ultra-modern production plant - “the first of its kind,” explains Dylan Low of Air Liquide Singapore.
He picks us up at the gates along-side Helena Seiver, Vice President, Strategic Account Management for Micron at Air Liquide, and while we don protective goggles, helmets and overalls for our tour of the plant cleanrooms, she explains her role as “providing one Air Liquide service to one Micron.” This means ensuring that Air Liquide deploys its international reach to support its partner as it, too, expands globally. In this case, the Group opened one of its largest electronics advanced materials production facilities alongside Micron in Singapore.
This strategy of regionalizing supply chains makes them more robust and responsive. With covid-19 lockdowns in place during the construction of Air Liquide’s Advanced Materials center in Singapore, the importance of regional synergies became even more salient. About the partnership with Air Liquide, Jenny Tan, Frontend Global Materials Operations Director at Micron, comments, “Micron and Air Liquide have been successfully collaborating for the last 30 years on various projects that have contributed to Micron’s production efficiency, supply chain resiliency and sustainability efforts. We are excited to continue our long partnership with Air Liquide in the years to come.”
“Our enScribe™ products are designed to reduce the global warming potential typically associated with most contemporary gases used in etch processes.”
[ Jiro Yokota ]
