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In the bag

A supervisor at Clariant's AZ electronic materials unit places containers of photoresist in bags at the company's new plant in Somerville, NJ. Production supervisor Dave Dubois bags the 10-L bottles during start-up tests of the packaging line. The facility's 36,000-sq-ft production floor is a closed cleanroom, the vendor says. The packaging line is in a Class 10 area, and the plant's conveyor is housed in a Class 1 cleanroom to maintain the cleanliness of chemicals in open bottles. As another cleanliness measure, robots cap and uncap the bottles. Part of a $43-million expansion project, the new plant also makes strippers, solvent, and antireflective coatings. The new site also has a pilot plant that will enable the company to make products for testing and customer samples.

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