July 2021


Smart Welding Station P3 UHP for orbital welding in High and Ultra High Purity environments


The French company Polysoude has launched its brand-new Smart Welding Station P3 UHP at the beginning of this year, after only 16 months of lead time


T


he market of semicon- ductor-based


devices is


currently subject to dy- namic changes. Increased demand is generated by


trends towards accelerated digitali- sation, the development of artificial intelligence, supercomputing, and the Internet of Things. In the course of ongoing technical evolution, global players like Intel, Samsung or TSMC are preparing the com- mercial production of 3 nm semi- conductor nodes whereas IBM has recently presented their first proto- type of a 2 nm chip. To reduce their dependence from global semicon- ductor supply chains, Chinese firms with techniques which remained far behind the level of leading global companies now try to get away from acting as pure-play foundries.


To cope with the rising need, ex- isting production facilities must be expanded, and new semiconduc- tor fabrication plants must be built. Successful fabrication of semicon- ductors and semiconductor manu- facturing equipment requires a sig- nificant number of additional clean room facilities which comply with Ultra High Purity standards.


Under the impact of the global pandemic new pharmaceutics are currently being developed and must be produced, the necessary capacities especially for the huge number of vaccines depend as well on advanced clean room technol-


Figure1: Smart Welding Station P3 UHP with closed chamber welding head for orbital welding of tubes and fittings


ogy with UHP or at least High Purity adequacy.


Recent product developments following these trends was the motivation for French company Polysoude to launch its


new Smart Welding Station P3 UHP (Fig.1) at the beginning of this year, after only 16 months of lead time.


brand-


In the field of semiconductor pro- duction, extended tube network is necessary to supply clean room in- stallations with ultra-pure gases and liquids, which serve for inertisation, etching and rinsing, whereas the preparation of pharmaceuticals depends on steam and germ-free water for sterilisation, diluting and injection purposes. The high-quality tubes for the network assembly are


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