GenTek’s
performance chemicals are the essential ingredients
in many widely used products, such as antacids,
antiperspirants, baby formula, food preservatives,
charcoal briquettes, paints and inks. The company’s
products also purify the water we drink and the
air we breathe. GenTek’s performance products
and services are targeted to four principal markets:
environmental services; pharmaceutical and personal
care; technology; and chemical processing.
Consumers continue to demand
faster, better, more robust and less costly computers
and integrated cell phones. At Motorola, a global
leader in providing integrated communications solutions
and embedded electronic solutions, developing a
way to fabricate semiconductors combining both silicon
and gallium arsenide (GaAs) was a significant breakthrough
that may go a long way toward meeting such new technological
demands. The GaAs material conducts electricity
faster than silicon, and it emits light, a function
beyond the limits of the silicon semiconductors.
GenTek’s performance-products team is working
with Motorola’s engineers to provide them with
chemicals tailored specifically to the requirements
of GaAs wafers. GenTak™, one of GenTek’s
high-performance adhesives, meets Motorola’s
stringent processing demands for mounting the fragile
GaAs wafers to sapphire substrate carriers. In the
final processing stages, Motorola uses GenTek’sGenSolve™ and GenClean™ chemicals
to remove residues and subsequently de-mount the
finished wafer from the carrier. Customers select
GenTek when their next-generation products demand
new technology and customized solutions.
