- Registration date2024-11-12
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Deputy Minister for Trade and Investment Kim Dae-ja of the Republic of Korea attended the groundbreaking ceremony of Japanese company JSR Corporation’s metal oxide resist (MOR) production plant today in Cheongju, North Chungcheong Province.
Established in 1957, JSR Corporation is a world-leading semiconductor photoresist manufacturer, and has been steadily increasing investment in Korea since building its display materials plant in Ochang in 2003.
Today’s groundbreaking ceremony makes JSR Corporation the first company in the world to establish a production base in Korea to manufacture metal oxide resists for extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) processing. Capable of replacing low-end chemically amplified resists, EUV metal oxide resists play a key role in securing competitiveness in ultra-fine processes, on which major chip producers are concentrating all their effort.
JSR Corporation plans to complete the plant construction and begin mass-producing metal oxide resists by 2026, through which Korea expects to better meet domestic demand and boost its semiconductor industry competitiveness.