Cmc Materials

Cabot Microelectronics Corporation (Cabot Microelectronics Corp) is the supplier of polishing slurries and a CMP pad supplier used in the manufacture of advanced integrated circuit (IC) devices within the semiconductor industry, in a process called chemical mechanical planarization (CMP). CMP is a polishing process used by IC device manufacturers to planarize or flatten many of the multiple layers of material that are deposited upon silicon wafers in the production of advanced ICs. The Company develops, produces, and sells CMP slurries for polishing many of the conducting and insulating materials used in IC devices, and also for polishing the disk substrates and magnetic heads used in hard disk drives. The Company also develops, manufacture, and sells CMP polishing pads, which are used in conjunction with slurries in the CMP process. CMC Materials is a supplier of high-performing and innovative solutions that solve their customers’ challenges.