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Hurricane Helene Could Have a Significant Impact on High Purity Quartz, Semiconductor Supply

October 2, 2024
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San Diego, CA, October 2, 2024: A tropical storm, remnants of Hurricane Helene, ripped through the western North Carolina mountain town of Spruce Pine last week, disrupting quartz supply operations at both Sibelco and The Quartz Corp.  Together these companies supply about 95% of the world’s ultra-high purity quartz. This raw material is critically important to the global semiconductor industry.  While some of that output can be used to…

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Semiconductor Quartz Equipment Components Forecast

September 18, 2024
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Geopolitical issues push end users towards local suppliers San Diego, CA, September 18, 2024: TECHCET— tthe electronic materials advisory firm providing semiconductor materials supply chain information —is forecasting the semiconductor quartz fabricated parts market to rebound by almost 6% in 2024, reaching approximately $US 2.12 billion. Increasing demand for quartz components is driven by fab expansions alongside increases in etch and CVD steps for advanced tech nodes, especially true…

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Quartz, Ceramic, and Silicon Equipment Components

February 6, 2024
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Semiconductor fab expansion met with pause before strong rise in 2025 San Diego, CA, February 6, 2024:  TECHCET — the advisory firm providing materials market & supply chain information for the semiconductor industry — reports that the total Semiconductor Quartz and Silicon Parts markets will show moderate growth of less than 5% to US$2.95 billion in 2024. This outlook is attributed to a slowing in fab expansion plans and…

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Semiconductor Ceramic Parts Market to Rebound in 2024

November 22, 2023
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New investments in CVD SiC expected from equipment component suppliers San Diego, CA, November 22, 2023:  TECHCET — the electronic materials advisory firm providing business and technology information on semiconductor supply chains — has announced that the consumable ceramic equipment parts market will contract by -5% in 2023 to US$2.5 billion. Ceramic fabricated parts, including alumina (Al2O3), aluminum nitride (AlN), silicon carbide (SiC), and chemical vapor deposition SiC (CVD-…

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Quartz Components Market Expecting Slight Decline in 2023

January 24, 2023
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Decline may vary in intensity depending on region and ongoing fab expansions San Diego, CA, January 24, 2023:  TECHCET— the electronic materials advisory firm providing business and technology information on semiconductor supply chains — has announced that the Quartz Equipment Components Market for semiconductor manufacturing is expecting a downturn of -5% in 2023, as highlighted in the bi-yearly update to TECHCET’s Quartz Components CMR™ Market Research Report. This forecast…

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Quartz Revenues a Positive Sign Amidst Equipment Sales Declines

August 7, 2019
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San Diego, CA, August 06, 2019: TECHCET—the advisory services firm providing electronic materials information—announced that the global market for quartz equipment consumables used in semiconductor manufacturing is forecasted to drop only -3% this year to US$1.26 billion for fabricated parts and $425M for base materials. These moderate decline estimates are attributed to current long lead-times and lean parts inventories; both positive signs amidst the negative growth (

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US$1B Global Market for Quartz Growing Amidst Fluctuating Lead-times

August 13, 2018
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Wafer Shortage affecting Silicon Components Market San Diego, CA, July 25, 2018: TECHCET—the advisory services firm providing electronic materials information— announced that the global market for consumable quartz components used in semiconductor manufacturing equipment in 2017 was over US$1 billion in revenues, having grown 26 percent from 2016. Some lead-times for delivery in 2017 doubled due to the high demand, and the supply-chain is still constrained for hot-work parts….

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