ATMI Announces BrightPak(TM) Technology for Advanced Performance in Critical Liquid Materials Containment and Delivery
11 July 2012 - 3:00AM
ATMI, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATMI) announced a new innovation in critical
materials packaging today with the introduction of BrightPak™, its
next-generation liquid containment and delivery system. Introduced
to address the requirements of advanced photolithography, BrightPak
systems are designed to deliver significant benefits and increased
performance in system integrity, efficiency, optimized
cost-of-ownership and safety, versus traditional systems and glass
bottles.
Commercial opportunities for BrightPak systems include current
and prospective ATMI customers performing high-value liquid
material transfers into process steps, including those in the
semiconductor, flat panel display and LED markets. Additional
markets and applications may include biopharmaceutical, solar panel
manufacturing and the application of adhesives.
"ATMI has been the market and technology leader in liquid
packaging for the semiconductor lithography segment for a long
time," noted Chris Kramer, ATMI's senior vice president of
materials solutions. "Today, we look to continue that leadership
with our next-generation packaging solution. BrightPak technology
is an innovation that reduces customer risk and delivers improved
safety and performance. Simply stated, BrightPak systems are safer,
cleaner, better."
Advanced Design, Increased Benefits
BrightPak bottle systems are created first as a small plastic
pre-form that includes both an external overpack and an internal
'hard' or rigid liner. It is then blow-molded into a larger bottle
form with a capacity of just under five liters. The final product
is a double-containment bottle system with a rigid, yet
collapsible, interior liner. With its advanced design, the
BrightPak bottle system offers approximately 21% additional volume
compared to the typical one-gallon glass bottle used in lithography
applications today. In fact, BrightPak bottles allow this higher
fill volume without impacting the customer's labeling surface, the
handle location or the physical dimension of the chemical
cabinet.
From filling and shipping to storing and dispensing, the
system's double-containment design and materials of construction
deliver exceptional chemical protection from environmental factors,
as well as accidents and operator errors. Unlike glass bottles,
BrightPak bottles are made from shatterproof materials and will not
easily break if dropped, especially when filled. The ergonomic
design of the bottle and handle allows for easy and safe operator
handling. The bottle shape, connectors and diptube were designed
together for superior material delivery with an optimum
utilization.
"We are offering the industry much-improved benefits with our
new BrightPak systems and we're working to make the transition as
easy as possible," commented Garth Su, ATMI's senior director of
the packaging business group and global product marketing. "All
BrightPak systems work with connectors for widely-used glass bottle
systems, as well as existing ATMI connectors and caps. Of course,
that includes our misconnect prevention capability to eliminate
human connection errors."
High-Purity, Flexible and Cost Effective
BrightPak systems are cleanroom-manufactured, particle certified
and provide superior chemical protection from UV light exposure.
Moreover, the wetted surface is made of high-purity,
chemical-resistant materials. BrightPak systems also offer improved
flexibility for customers looking for both pump-enabled and
pressure-dispense solutions. The rigid, collapsible liner provides
improved isolation of drive gas when pressure is applied between
the liner and overpack. This creates a safer environment for the
materials that can help reduce the formation of micro-bubbles and
other defects. BrightPak systems are also cost-effective, providing
utilization rates of up to 99.9% of filled product which minimizes
product waste. In addition, the system's small footprint can help
free-up facility space and its light weight can reduce shipping
costs. BrightPak overpacks are recyclable and the interior rigid
liners are more disposable-friendly, yielding a much smaller carbon
footprint than glass bottles.
For more information on BrightPak bottle systems, go to
www.atmi-brightpak.com
About ATMI
ATMI, Inc. provides specialty semiconductor materials, and safe,
high-purity materials handling and delivery solutions designed to
increase process efficiencies for the worldwide semiconductor, flat
panel, and life sciences industries. For more information, please
visit http://www.atmi.com.
ATMI, the ATMI logo and BrightPak are trademarks, or registered
trademarks, of Advanced Technology Materials, Inc., in the United
States, other countries or both.
The ATMI, Inc. logo is available at
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Forward Looking Statements
Statements contained herein that relate to ATMI's future
performance, including, without limitation, statements with respect
to ATMI's anticipated results of operations or level of business
for 2012 or any other future period, are forward-looking statements
within the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements are based on current
expectations only and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties,
and assumptions, including, but not limited to, changes in
semiconductor industry growth (including, without limitation, wafer
starts) or ATMI's markets; competition, problems, or delays
developing, commercializing, and delivering new products;
customer-driven pricing pressure; potential loss of key customers;
problems or delays in integrating acquired operations and
businesses; uncertainty in the credit and financial markets;
ability to protect ATMI's proprietary technology; and other factors
described in ATMI's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011
and other subsequent filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Such risks and uncertainties may cause actual results
to differ materially from those expressed in our forward-looking
statements. ATMI undertakes no obligation to update any
forward-looking statements.
CONTACT: ATMI Contact
Lou Blanchard
Marketing Director
ATMI, Inc.
Tel + 1 602 220 4320
lblanchard@atmi.com
Media Contact
Mark Button
Director
Impress Labs
Tel + 1 503 616 3817
mark@impresslabs.com
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