{"id":170929,"date":"2023-08-30T13:39:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T18:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/semiconductor-supplier-schunk-xycarb-plans-big-expansion-to-keep-up-with-samsung-other-chipmakers"},"modified":"2023-08-30T13:39:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T18:39:51","slug":"semiconductor-supplier-schunk-xycarb-plans-big-expansion-to-keep-up-with-samsung-other-chipmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/semiconductor-supplier-schunk-xycarb-plans-big-expansion-to-keep-up-with-samsung-other-chipmakers","title":{"rendered":"Semiconductor supplier Schunk Xycarb plans big expansion to keep up with Samsung, other chipmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/semiconductor-supplier-schunk-xycarb-plans-big-expansion-to-keep-up-with-samsung-other-chipmakers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Construction is set to break ground by the end of this year, and the company expects to move into the new space by the end of 2024. The production facility for semiconductor quartz will include a clean room, high-purity cleaning system and allow them to expand an automation component of their business that they\u2019ve been capitalizing on for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew that our customers all over the world were expanding at a rate we couldn\u2019t keep up with,\u201d said Scott Lingren, SXT\u2019s managing director and U.S. chairman. \u201cAs you see all these expansions from Samsung in Taylor to Texas Instruments Inc. in the Dallas area to all over the world \u2026 we just have to keep up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SXT \u2013 which is headquartered in the Netherlands and owned by the privately-held Schunk Group in Germany \u2013 supplies semiconductor manufacturers around the world, like Samsung, which has had a presence in Central Texas for decades and is potentially adding to its existing Austin campus and its new site in Taylor. Other major players in the industry include Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which is expanding in Arizona, and Intel Corp., which is expanding to Ohio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction is set to break ground by the end of this year, and the company expects to move into the new space by the end of 2024. The production facility for semiconductor quartz will include a clean room, high-purity cleaning system and allow them to expand an automation component of their business that they\u2019ve been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}