EXPLORATION

Altech's semi-conductor story

PRELIMINARY investigations into the demand for high purity alumina from the epoxy moulding compounds semi-conductor market have turned up a global market size of 700,000 tonnes per annum to 900,000tpa with a price us US$100 per kilogram for product meeting specifications.

Altech believes its HPA could be valuable to the semi-conductor market.

Altech believes its HPA could be valuable to the semi-conductor market.

Altech says that is good news because it believes its low sodium HPA and the morphology of its HPA could be ideal for the EMC semi-conductor application. The company plans to start developing a product...

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