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Materion
Award-winning company, Materion Corporation, continues to grow sustainably following a recent acquisition in South Korea
A global leader in advanced materials solutions, Materion Corporation( Materion) supports a variety of high-performance industries including telecom and data center, energy, automotive, semiconductor, industrial and aerospace. Built on a series of acquisitions, the company has nearly 100 years of expertise and has been known as Materion since 2011. It operates in three business segments- Performance Materials, Precision Optics, and Electronic Materials( EM).
Leo Linehan, President of EM, outlines how his sector is integral to delivering breakthrough solutions:“ Materion’ s EM business is a leading global supplier of thin film deposition materials, inorganic chemicals, and microelectronic packaging supporting a wide range of markets.
“ Deposition materials make up more than 70 percent of EM’ s business. Our product portfolio includes sputtering targets, evaporation materials, and precursor materials for atomic layer deposition( ALD). We are currently ramping production of these precursor materials to support ALD being used in high-performance memory and logic applications, which we’ re really excited about.
“ We’ re also taking advantage of our recent acquisition of a site in South Korea to further grow our target business and give us a footprint close to semiconductor market leaders, allowing us to better partner with them.”
The transaction saw Materion purchase manufacturing assets for tantalum solutions from Konasol, a Korean manufacturer serving the semiconductor and adjacent markets.“ The acquisition is a strategic investment that will enable us to better serve semiconductor customers in Asia. It included a newly
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