Gelest Completes New Production Facility, Sharpens Focus on Advanced Markets

The Mitsubishi Chemical Group’s company Gelest, Inc. proudly announced the grand opening of its new 50,000-square-foot facility in Morrisville, enhancing its manufacturing capabilities and supporting applications such as microelectronics and medical devices, as well as advanced thermal coatings and mobility for customers, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by company executives, local officials, and residents.

Photos by Joanne Ames-Lower Bucks Source.

“Our main focus will be to develop and manufacture precursor chemicals for use in dry resist EUV lithography, ensuring a robust supply,” said Edward Kimble, President/General Manager, Gelest. Dry resist EUV technology is an advanced semiconductor manufacturing technique poised to propel the next generation of logic and DRAM technologies for the semiconductor market.

“The new building signifies Gelest’s advancement in increasing capacity to fulfill the growing demand for specialty materials in advanced markets, particularly microelectronics and medical devices,” stated Kimble. “This facility not only reflects our continuous investment in Gelest’s capabilities and business but also underscores our commitment to catering to the needs of advanced markets and their material application requirements.”

Edward Kimble, President/General Manager, Gelest
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Located on a revitalized U.S. EPA Brownfield site, the new production facility will feature state-of- the-art equipment designed for analysis, packaging, and high volume manufacturing of highly specialized chemistries to support advanced technology markets. To assure quality and chemical purity, the facility incorporates a 3,000-square-foot, ISO 7 clean room with advanced analytical instrumentation.

“This facility underscores Mitsubishi Chemical Group’s commitment to innovation and supporting the both the U.S. and global supply chain for critical materials for current and next generation materials and applications,” said Jonathan Goff, Business Vice President, Advanced Solutions Domain.

Jonathan Goff, Business Vice President, Advanced Solutions Domain 
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The addition of the new production facility underpins Gelest’s ongoing expansion in Morrisville. In 2001 the company established its Morrisville headquarters, which now comprises production, R&D and administration operations. The new facility extends Gelest’s footprint to nine buildings in Morrisville, eight on-site.

At the luncheon, Neville Lockwood, SVP Operations, explained that the company name, Gelest, comes from Geranium, Lead, Silicon and Tin. Goff explained that the building at 9 Steel wa built for expansion and that the ceremony was 1/3 of the footprint. Lockwood said the to fully staff the 1/3 would be 24 new full-time positions and  6-10 support positions and the economic growth would triple. Goff said that the company was once privately owned before being sold to Mitsubishi in late 2020.

Neville Lockwood – SVP Operations
Credit: Gelest

Gelest is a U.S.-based innovator, manufacturer, and global supplier of specialty silicones,organosilanes, metal-organics, and acrylate monomers that serves advanced technology end markets including medical devices, life sciences, coatings and adhesives, microelectronics, and personal care. As a Mitsubishi Chemical Group business unit, Gelest can leverage the expertise, research and development support, and resources of one of the world’s largest and most successful chemical companies. Gelest helps contribute to customer success by developing cutting edge chemical technology, products, and services to address society’s most complex material science challenges.

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