Cabot Microelectronics Gains Market Share In Slurry Market Says The Information Network.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers NEW TRIPOLI, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2001 Cabot Microelectronics increased its market share in 2000 among the hotly competitive CMP CMP (cytidine monophosphate): see cytosine. (1) (CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, NY, www.cmp.com) Part of United Business Media, CMP is a leading integrated media company that offers a wide variety of publications and services in the information (Chemical Mechanical Planarization) slurry vendors, according to the report CMP Technology: Competition, Products, Markets, recently published by The Information Network (www.theinformationnet.com), a New Tripoli, PA-based market research company. The CMP slurry market is led by Cabot Microelectronics (NasdaqNM:CCMP CCMP Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan CCMP Counter-Mode/CBC-Mac Protocol (IEEE 802.11I encryption algorithm) CCMP Capacitively Coupled Microwave Plasma CCMP Coalition of Concerned Medical Professionals ), which increased its market share to 75% - more than triple its closest competitor. Other market entrants include Rodel (owned by Rohm and Haas Rohm and Haas Company (NYSE: ROH), a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based company, manufactures miscellaneous materials. A Fortune 500 Company, Rohm and Haas employs more than 17,000 people in 27 countries. The annual sales revenue of Rohm and Haas stands at about USD 8.2 billion. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ROH)), Fujimi, and EKC. New market entrants and joint ventures include a DuPont (NYSE:DD) and Air Products (NYSE:APD APD atrial premature depolarization (see atrial premature complex, under complex ); pamidronate. ) joint venture called DuPont Air Products NanoMaterials LLC; a Wacker-Chemie and Arch Chemicals (NYSE:ARJ) venture called Planar Solutions LLC; and other joint efforts including ATMI ATMI American Textile Manufacturers Institute ATMI Association for Technology in Music Instruction ATMI Advanced Technology Materials, Inc. ATMI Application-to-Transaction Manager Interface ATMI According to My Information ATMI Atm Interface Unit (NasdaqNM:ATMI) and Vinings Industries Inc.; Bayer AG and Universal Photonics; and Rodel and Clariant. The Information Network projects the merchant CMP slurry market to grow fivefold from $284.5 million in 2000 to $1.1 billion in 2004. Growth in 2001 will be 45.3%. The CMP tool market grew 102.3% in 2000 and will grow another 39.6% in 2001. Tool suppliers include Applied Materials (NasdaqNM:AMAT AMAT Applied Materials (stock symbol) AMAT Average Memory Access Time AMAT Automatic Message Accounting Transmitter AMAT Anti-Materiel (bomb or mine) AMAT Ageing Management Assessment Team ), Ebara, Lam Research (NasdaqNM:LRCX), SpeedFam-IPEC (NasdaqNM:SFAM), and Strasbaugh. "Despite the market entry of several competitors and the threat of a slurryless CMP technology, we see Cabot Microelectronics strengthening its position in the market," notes Dr. Robert N. Castellano, President of The Information Network. "Cabot Microelectronics recently doubled manufacturing capacity at its facility in Geino, Japan, and also completed a new 170,000-square-foot slurry manufacturing facility at in Aurora, IL." Dr. Castellano will be the CMP-MIC Luncheon Speaker with his talk entitled "CMP-Technology: Competition, Products & Markets" at the DUMIC/CMP-MIC, scheduled for March 5-9 2000 in Santa Clara, Ca. The Information Network is the leading consulting and market research company addressing the semiconductor, computer, and telecommunications industries. Web - www.theinformationnet.com E-mail - inquiry@theinformationnet.com |
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