US facility · Semiconductor materials
Fujifilm to spend $18 million to make more chip-polishing materials in Arizona
- Company
- Fujifilm (via FUJIFILM Electronic Materials U.S.A.) (Tokyo)
- Project
- CMP slurry production expansion, Mesa, Arizona
- Value
- About $18M (about ¥3B)
- Status
- Announced on October 14, 2026. The expanded line is scheduled to start operating in 2027.
- Date
- 2026-10-14
Fujifilm will invest about $18 million at its Mesa, Arizona site to expand production of copper CMP slurries, the liquids used to polish chip wiring layers flat. It is also adding facilities for other slurries, including ones for advanced packaging such as hybrid bonding. The expanded line is due to start in 2027.
Why it matters
Arizona is becoming a major US chipmaking hub, with TSMC and Intel building plants there. Chip-materials makers want supply close to those fabs, and Fujifilm is growing its US base to serve them.
From lab to factory
The Mesa site already holds Fujifilm's global research center for CMP slurries. The new multi-product line is meant as a bridge between that lab and full production, so new slurries developed there can move quickly into mass manufacturing. Fujifilm says it holds a leading global share in slurries for copper wiring.
Who leads it
Brian O'Donnelly, who heads FUJIFILM Electronic Materials U.S.A., said demand for advanced chips had entered a period of strong growth driven by artificial intelligence. Besides slurries, Fujifilm sells photoresists, post-polish cleaners, thin-film materials, polyimides and high-purity process chemicals, from plants in Japan, the US, Europe and Asia.
Sources
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