Edwards Vacuum, part of Atlas Copco Group, opened a 250,000-square-foot facility in Genesee County to expand US production of dry vacuum pumps for the semiconductor industry, expected to employ up to 600 people.

Edwards Vacuum, part of Atlas Copco, is finishing a USD 319 million, 240,000 sq ft dry vacuum pump factory at WNY STAMP in Alabama, New York. The plant is set to open in November 2026 with phase one capacity of up to 10,000 pumps per year.

KITZ and KITZ SCT held a completion ceremony on January 26, 2026 for a new plant at KITZ Corporation of Vietnam in Thang Long Industrial Park, Vinh Phuc, and production has commenced. The 4.5 billion yen facility makes ultra-high purity gas valves for semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

SH-NOMEN Pharmaceutical Equipment (Shanghai) held a groundbreaking in Ruian, Zhejiang for a new 43,500 square meter factory with a total investment of 100 million yuan and annual output of 500,000 intelligent control systems and OEB5 aseptic valves.

Edwards Vacuum has celebrated the groundbreaking of its first US dry pump factory for semiconductor equipment in Genesee County, New York. The investment is expected to exceed $300 million and create 600+ jobs.

Edwards Vacuum, part of Atlas Copco, has started construction on the first phase of a $319 million dry pump manufacturing facility in the town of Alabama, Genesee County, New York. The plant is expected to create about 600 jobs.

KITZ Corporation will establish a new factory building at its subsidiary KITZ Corporation of Vietnam in Tang Long III Industrial Park, Vinh Phuc Province, for high-purity gas diaphragm valves for semiconductor equipment, with an investment of 4.5 billion yen and operations starting November 2025.

Korean fittings and valve maker Hanseon Engineering is ramping up mass production of semiconductor safety and relief valves and is building a second factory near its Busan headquarters, targeted for completion early next year.

Edwards plans a new dry pump factory at the STAMP park in Genesee County, New York, initially creating about 280 jobs and producing 10,000 dry pumps per year, expandable to 20,000. It is scheduled to be operational in 2025.

Brooks Instrument opened a 57,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Penang, its fourth global production site, to make GF100 mass flow controllers for semiconductor customers.

Mersen officially opened its new manufacturing facility at 795 Santa Fe Pike in Columbia, Tennessee, its 10th US location, after investing USD 70 million. The plant will produce extruded graphite, insulation felt and isostatic graphite.

Edwards Vacuum, part of Atlas Copco, is seeking incentives for a first phase of $212 million to build a semiconductor dry pump manufacturing facility at STAMP in Genesee County, New York. It would create 343 high-wage jobs.

Edwards opened a 200,000-square-foot facility in Chandler, Arizona, in November 2022 for remanufacturing and assembly of vacuum pumps for the US semiconductor market. The site is expected to create about 200 new jobs.

Linde signed an investment memorandum with Gyeonggi Province for about KRW 150 billion to build an industrial gas plant in Pyeongtaek producing semiconductor rare gases such as krypton and xenon, to be completed by 2031.

Edwards, part of Atlas Copco Group, is building a 15,000 m2 manufacturing facility in Asan City, South Korea, for vacuum and abatement systems used in semiconductor manufacturing, expected to be fully operational in Q3 2023.

Edwards, part of Atlas Copco, is building a new dry vacuum pump factory for semiconductor manufacturers in Genesee County, New York. Phase one is a $127 million project; the total over seven years is $319 million, creating about 600 jobs.

Edwards, part of Atlas Copco, inaugurated a new 16,000 m2 vacuum pump plant in Asan City, South Korea, to serve global semiconductor manufacturing. Production began in June 2022 and the plant will create about 150 jobs.

NSI, a Tigard, Oregon supplier of gas and chemical equipment to semiconductor makers, is moving to a newly built 62,000 square foot plant in Sherwood, quadrupling its factory space this year.

Edwards announced a new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chandler, Arizona, to support North American semiconductor demand for vacuum and abatement solutions. The facility is expected to create about 200 jobs.

EMD Electronics, the North American electronics business of Merck KGaA, announced a new factory in Chandler, Arizona to manufacture gas and chemical delivery systems equipment, with a $28 million investment. Operations are expected to start by end of 2022 with more than 100 employees at full ramp-up.

Edwards Vacuum, part of Atlas Copco Group, opened a 250,000-square-foot facility in Genesee County, New York to expand US production of dry vacuum pumps for semiconductor manufacturers, expected to employ up to 600 people.

RORZE Robotech decided to build an additional factory in Hai Phong, Vietnam, to make semiconductor, FPD and life science equipment. The investment is USD 16.2 million, with construction starting December 2021 and completion scheduled for the end of August 2022.

Brooks Instrument has opened a new manufacturing, engineering and service center in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, Korea, to produce mass flow controllers for semiconductor manufacturing. The company says the move raises its global production capacity by close to 30 percent once at full scale.

Edwards and CSK, both Atlas Copco units, signed an MOU with South Chungcheong Province to build a semiconductor and display equipment plant on a 57,810 m² site in Asan, investing $110 million over five years.

Edwards will invest in a new building in Haverhill, Massachusetts, expected to be completed in Q2 2022, to host an innovation and solutions center for its cryogenic pump and chiller product company, relocating functions from Chelmsford.

Japan-based CKD Corporation will establish its first U.S. production site in Austin, Texas, with a $13 million investment creating up to 70 jobs. The facility will make fluid control components for the semiconductor industry and is scheduled to start operations in Fall 2021.

Unilok, a maker of high-performance valves, invested 48 billion won and completed a new factory in Sihwa MTV, Korea, with about 20,000 m2 of land. A 7,600 m2 site is reserved for expansion.

Hoffmann + Krippner is building a new facility of about 2,200 square meters in Buchen, Germany, for an investment of EUR 3.5 million, with half the space for screen printing for printed electronics and foil printing. The project is expected to be completed within twelve months.

Edwards Vacuum, part of Atlas Copco Group, opened a 250,000-square-foot facility in Genesee County, New York, to expand US production of dry vacuum pumps for the semiconductor industry. The site is expected to employ up to 600 people.

Murata Manufacturing will build a new production building at its Wakura Murata Manufacturing site in Nanao, Ishikawa, with construction starting February 2018 and completion targeted January 2019 at about JPY 3.5 billion.

EBARA has completed a new manufacturing plant and service facilities in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, with operations starting November 15, 2016. The plant makes semiconductor manufacturing equipment and CMP systems and doubles EBARA's precision product capacity in Kumamoto.