Voltaix, LLC Opens Sales Office in Shanghai, China

BRANCHBURG, N.J., Oct. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Voltaix, LLC, a leading provider of materials that enhance the performance of semiconductor chips and solar cells, is pleased to announce it has established a sales and technical/customer support office in Shanghai, China.  Yun Liu, Asian Business Manager and Voltaix's first employee in China, will be responsible for executing the regional sales and marketing initiatives.  Yun has an MBA from the University of Ottawa as well as Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai University. Over the past five years he has held various positions with a large industrial gas company driving growth in solar, semiconductor and TFT applications.   The office will allow for an expanded sales and marketing staff in the future.

"Sustainable growth of Voltaix chemistries in China for solar and semiconductor applications is expected to continue well into the future.  We felt the need to bring resources closer to our distribution partners and end users to provide timely technical and customer support. Voltaix's decision to expand into China illustrates our commitment to better understanding the market in China and improve the overall customer experience.  We are pleased to have someone with Yun's experience join the Voltaix team," said Greg Muhr, Director, Global Sales & Marketing of Voltaix, LLC.   

About Voltaix
Voltaix manufactures specialty materials that enhance the performance and manufacturability of semiconductors and photovoltaics. Utilizing exceptional expertise in silicon, germanium and boron chemistry, our products are custom designed for the most demanding applications, including:

• Advanced DRAM computer memory
• Silicon Germanium (SiGe) transistors for wireless communications chips
• Strained silicon for high speed logic computer chips (CPUs)
• Copper enabling low-K dielectrics for computer chips
• High efficiency thin film silicon solar cells

Voltaix materials enable logic chips to compute more quickly and solar cells to absorb a broader portion of the solar spectrum, and they improve manufacturability by minimizing defect formation and increasing machine throughput.

Voltaix is the world leader in the manufacture of a number of electronics products, including germane, diborane, trisilane, and trimethyl boron. We use proprietary synthesis, purification, and packaging technology developed in-house. We also design and build our own equipment for use in our manufacturing operations. The company, founded in 1986, employs approximately 140 people at its sites in North Branch, NJ and High Springs, FL. With new sites soon to be opened in Portland, PA and Seoul, Korea.  Intel Capital, Novus Energy Partners, and Mission Point Capital Partners are investors in Voltaix. For further information, visit www.voltaix.com.

SOURCE Voltaix, LLC