ATMI Chemistry First-Ever in Semiconductor Industry to Receive EPA's 'Design for the Environment' Label
July 12 2011 - 1:00PM
ATMI, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATMI) today formally announced that one of its
new semiconductor manufacturing products has been acknowledged by
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as receiving its 'Design
for the Environment' designated label (DfE Label). The product,
iCleaner, designed for a semiconductor fabrication cleaning
process, is the first chemistry in the Semiconductor industry to
receive this accolade. According to the EPA's DfE Website, the
designation indicates that a DfE team has screened all product
ingredients for possible environmental and health effects. The site
further states that "manufacturers who become DfE partners...have
invested heavily in research, development, and reformulation to
ensure that their ingredients and finished product line up on the
green end of the health and environmental spectrum while
maintaining or improving product performance." The EPA iCleaner
listing can be found at:
http://www.epa.gov/dfe/pubs/projects/formulat/formpart.htm#7
As an innovator in product engineering and a leading provider of
materials and materials packaging to the semiconductor industry,
ATMI incorporates two core principles to help guide its approach to
product design: 'The 12 Principles of Green Engineering' and 'The
12 Principles of Green Chemistry.'
For this product, ATMI partnered with a customer to deliver an
enabling cleaning solution used in the semiconductor fabrication
process. With the aid of ATMI's High Productivity Development tools
and the '12 Principles' approaches, the team developed a novel, low
odor, and environmentally benign formulation that delivers a time-
and cost-effective in-line cleaning method. Baseline cleanliness
has been an area of concern for the integrated circuit (IC)
production community, and as dimensions of the most advanced ICs
continue to shrink, it is now critical to clean not only the wafer
surface, but also other surfaces in the wafer processing
environment. In addition to the safety and environmental aspects,
the product's improved cleaning performance compared favorably to
the previous method with both increased tool throughput and no
added defects.
"Our High Productivity Development capabilities continue to
enable breakthrough solutions quickly for our partners and
customers," noted Tod Higinbotham, ATMI's Executive Vice President
and General Manager of Microelectronics. "We're pleased to be able
to collaborate in this way to meet our customer's goals
efficiently. Meeting the EPA requirements for the DfE designation
is certainly another first and positive step forward in chemistry
and materials development."
About ATMI
ATMI, Inc. provides specialty semiconductor materials, and safe,
high-purity materials handling and delivery solutions designed to
increase process efficiencies for the worldwide semiconductor, flat
panel, and life sciences industries. For more information, please
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Statements contained herein that relate to ATMI's future
performance, including, without limitation, statements with respect
to ATMI's anticipated results of operations or level of business
for 2011 or any other future period, are forward-looking statements
within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based on current
expectations only and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties,
and assumptions, including, but not limited to, changes in
semiconductor industry growth (including, without limitation, wafer
starts) or ATMI's markets; competition, problems, or delays
developing, commercializing and delivering new products;
customer-driven pricing pressure; potential loss of key customers;
problems or delays in integrating acquired operations and
businesses; uncertainty in the credit and financial markets;
ability to protect ATMI's proprietary technology; and other factors
described in ATMI's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010,
and other subsequent filings, including the March 31, 2011 Form
10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Such risks
and uncertainties may cause actual results to differ materially
from those expressed in our forward-looking statements. ATMI
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