Tokyo-based Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has decided to expand its facilities for producing high-quality-grade silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers for power devices - which have already been marketed under the trade name High-Grade Epi (HGE) - ...
Tags: SiC power devices, semiconductors
Tokyo-based Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has expanded its product lineup of infrared light-emitting diode (IR-LED) chips, which are mainly used as parts of photo-couplers for gate drivers in power semiconductor modules and parts of sensors for ...
Tokyo-based Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) says that, by the end of January 2018, it will acquire assets from Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp (NSSMC) and Nippon Steel & Sumikin Materials Co Ltd (NSMAT) concerning the ...
Tags: SDK, Nippon Steel
Showa Denko (SDK), Showa Aluminum Can (SAC) and Carabao Group have agreed to set up a joint venture (JV) to manufacture and sell aluminum cans in Thailand. The joint corporation is part of CBG’s plan to meet its increasing demands ...
Tags: Showa Denko, Aluminum Cans
Showa Denko’s (SDK) subsidiary Showa Aluminum Can (SAC) is set to produce sleek cans for beverages in Vietnam. In May 2014, SDK and SAC acquired a 91.75% stake in Hanacans Joint Stock Company, which produces beverage cans in ...
Tags: Vietnamese Beverage, Packaging
Tokyo-based Showa Denko K.K. (SDK) has expanded high-purity ammonia production capacity at a plant in Taiwan (owned by its manufacturing subsidiary) from 2500 tons per year to 3500 tons per year. SDK has three sites for producing ...
Tags: SDK High-purity ammonia GaN LEDs, Showa Denko, Electronics
According to a new market report published by Persistence Market Research “Global Market Study on Hydrogen: Electrolysis of Water Segment to Witness Highest Growth by 2020”, the global hydrogen market was valued at 255.3 billion ...
Tags: hydrogen market, hydrogen
According to a new market report published by Persistence Market Research “Global Market Study on Graphite: Battery Segment To Witness Highest Growth by 2020”, the global graphite market was valued at USD 13.62 billion in 2013 ...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Aachen, Germany says that Japanese manufacturer Showa Denko has qualified its most recent system for manufacturing silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers. The new AIX G5 WW (Warm-Wall) chemical vapor ...
Tokyo, July 25, 2014 – (JCN Newswire) – Showa Denko (SDK) (Tokyo:4004) has decided to expand its capacity to produce high-purity aluminum foils for aluminum electrolyticA polarized capacitor exhibiting a very high ...
Tags: Denko, Electrical, Electronics
Showa Denko Packaging, a subsidiary of Japan-based Showa Denko, has expanded the production of aluminum-laminated films at its Hikone plant in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The aluminum laminated films are used for packaging lithium ion ...
High ethylene prices in Asia have been keeping margins of most ethylene derivatives in the red, forcing some MEG and polyethylene makers to consider trimming operation rates or closing entire production lines, sources said this week. In ...
Its' reported that the state-owned mining company Aneka Tambang (Antam) announced said that it has started the operation of a bauxite processing plant in West Kalimantan. Meanwhile, the bauxite processing plant is the largest one in ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, mining
Many SiC-based substrate manufacturers exhibited 6-inch (150mm)-diameter wafers at ICSCRM 2013, an international conference on SiC-based power semiconductors, which took place from Sept 29 to Oct 4, 2013, in Miyazaki, Japan. Six-inch ...
Tags: SiC Wafers, Lighting
Showa Denko (SDK) is launching silicon carbide (SiC) epitaxial wafers with a diameter of 6 inches (150mm) - the largest size currently available, it is claimed - for use in power devices. The firm is also selling a new grade of 4-inch ...
Tags: Epiwafers, Inverter Power Devices