Pall and Matheson Tri-Gas form alliance

Pall Corporation and Matheson Tri-Gas, a member of Nippon Sanso Corporation, have entered into a strategic alliance to jointly develop, manufacture and sell gas purifiers to the semiconductor industry. Both companies will have exclusive access to the others' purification media to improve semiconductor manufacturing by eliminating particulate and molecular contaminants, including oxygen, moisture and hydrocarbons from process gases. The two companies will also combine their complementary strengths in the development of new technologies to meet the increasingly stringent and changing needs of the semiconductor industry. "Our new alliance provides this €24.4m market with an expanded portfolio of media and unparalleled purification technology for virtually every application in semiconductor processing," said Steven Chisolm, president of Pall Microelectronics. "This is increasingly important as gas purification becomes a dominant factor in semiconductor manufacturing." William J. Kroll, chairman, CEO and president of Matheson Tri-Gas,. added: "Our new business relationship will afford both Matheson and Pall improved efficiencies in our purification product offerings, resulting in better overall products for the market." The two companies have been working together since 1997, when Pall began distributing Matheson's NANOCHEM point-of-use gas purification systems.