# Daikin to build $38M semiconductor gas plant in Dangjin, South Korea

Daikin Industries has signed a 42 billion won (approx. $38 million) investment MOU with Chungcheongnam-do and Dangjin City to build a semiconductor manufacturing gas production plant in Dangjin's Songsan 2 Foreign Investment Zone. The plant will produce high-purity gas for semiconductor manufacturing, with production starting in October 2022.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2021-01-19
- Where: Dangjin, Chungcheongnam-do, South Korea
- Value: $38.0M (42.0B KRW)
- Jobs: 50
- Starts operating: Oct 2022
- Status: announced
- Products: high-purity semiconductor manufacturing gas
- Sectors: [Semiconductors and Industrial Electronics](https://endata.com/sectors/semiconductors-electronics.md), [Specialty Chemicals](https://endata.com/sectors/specialty-chemicals.md)

## Companies

- [Daikin Industries](https://endata.com/companies/6523.md)
- [CNH Tech](https://endata.com/companies/52620.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [mtnews.net](https://www.mtnews.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=10032), 2021-01-19: "다이킨공업은 신축 공장을 통해 그동안 일본 현지에서 직접 생산·납품해온 반도체 제조용 가스를 국내에서 생산·판매할 방침이며, 내년 10월부터 에어컨용 냉매 가스의 순도를 높여 반도체 제조에 적합한 고순도 가스를 생산할 계획이다."

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