Demand for New Technology Drives AkzoNobel Expansion
AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands – AkzoNobel, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is boosting capacity at one of its U.S. sites in order to meet increasing demand from the semiconductor industry, particularly for the production of light emitting diodes (LEDs).
The investment - at the company's Battleground facility in Texas - involves extending the tri-methyl-aluminum (TMAL) unit and building a new tri-methyl-gallium (TMG) plant, which will consolidate the plant's status as the largest of its kind in the world. TMAL is a feedstock for TMG, a high-purity metal organic used in products such as LED wafer manufacturing.