At a glance
| Booth | L0027 |
| Country | TW |
| Website | www.wacom-mfg.jp/english |
Company profile
WACOM TAIWAN CO., LTD. was jointly established by M. Watanabe & Co., Ltd. and Wacom Manufacturing Co., Ltd. within the M. Watanabe group, and in June 2013 it set up sales and manufacturing operations in Taiwan as the group's first step in its Asian expansion. The Taiwan company operates not only as an overseas sales base for products handled within the group but also develops and sells new products, while supplying silicone-rubber products to markets centered on China and emerging economies and to customers in other countries. Within the group background, M. Watanabe developed alongside Japan's semiconductor industry as a trading company for semiconductor-process parts and equipment, while Wacom Manufacturing supplies internally produced quartz-glass and silicone-rubber products. Wacom Manufacturing Co., Ltd., the manufacturing company associated with the Taiwan operation, was established in February 1971 as a manufacturing affiliate of M. Watanabe & Co., Ltd. Its manufacturing history is built around silicon-based materials, specifically quartz glass composed of SiO2 and silicone rubber made from silicon polymer compounds, two materials with very different physical properties and processing methods that are used as functional parts in high-technology production processes. The group emphasizes dimensional accuracy, cleanliness, and stability of physical properties for functional parts used mainly in semiconductor manufacturing processes. Wacom Manufacturing also links its manufactured functional parts to technological development in IoT, artificial intelligence, and automated-driving applications. Its stated business purposes include manufacturing and sales of electrical-insulation materials, silicone rubber, release materials and solvents, and manufacturing, processing, and sales of quartz-glass products. The manufacturing organization includes administration, precision processing, electrical materials, quartz processing, production engineering, and quality assurance functions. The company history records ISO 9001 certification in 2000, reacquisition of the 2000-version certification in 2006 after a business transfer, certification to the 2008 version in 2009, and certification to the 2015 version in 2018. In 2009, Wacom Manufacturing obtained approval to manufacture quartz parts for ASM's Epsilon epitaxial-growth equipment in the United States. Its corporate history also includes the addition of an electrical-materials business in 1992, a quartz-glass business in 2003, separation of an equipment division to establish Wacom Research Institute in 2006, and its 50th anniversary in February 2021. The broader group and related-company network named in its corporate information includes M. Watanabe, Wacom Research Institute, TOMUKO, Amaya Manufacturing, Kusukin, WACOM CORPORATION, WACOM ENGINEERING CORPORATION, WACOM QUARTZ CORPORATION, WACOM TAIWAN CO., LTD., and several related logistics and management companies. For WACOM TAIWAN CO., LTD., this group structure connects the Taiwan sales and manufacturing base with quartz-glass, silicone-rubber, semiconductor-process, engineering, and related support capabilities developed across the wider organization.
Exhibits
WACOM TAIWAN CO., LTD. and its manufacturing group supply processed quartz-glass products and silicone-rubber molded products for semiconductor and other industrial applications. The product range includes polishing carriers used in double-sided polishing processes for silicon wafers, glass substrates, and compound-semiconductor wafers. It also includes glass-laminate boards and mica boards used as electrical-insulation and thermal-insulation materials. Silicone rubber is used for its heat resistance, cold resistance, and chemical stability across electrical, electronics, medical, automotive, food, construction, household, and other fields. Silicone-rubber molded products and related applications for semiconductor manufacturing and physical, chemical, and medical use are produced on dedicated clean lines that control foreign-matter contamination from material mixing through packing. The group manufactures silicone-rubber sheets with dedicated molds, ranging from general-purpose sheets to sheets given differentiated functional characteristics. Quartz-glass products for semiconductor manufacturing include square tanks, process tubes, boats, transparent and opaque quartz-glass plates, and transparent and opaque processed quartz-glass parts. Quartz glass is used for its high purity, chemical stability, heat resistance, optical transmittance, and electrical insulation, with applications that include semiconductor, LED, and liquid-crystal-panel manufacturing. The quartz-processing operation maintains material purity while machining parts to shapes and dimensions matched to customer requirements. For clean manufacturing, the operation controls foreign matter from material mixing to packing, making the resulting components suitable for semiconductor-manufacturing equipment and medical-device parts. Product dimensions can be inspected without contact using optical measuring equipment, avoiding deformation that can occur when soft rubber is measured by contact methods. Analysis and evaluation capabilities include infrared spectroscopy, a shape-analysis laser microscope, an automatic rubber hardness tester, and physical-property measuring equipment for qualitative and quantitative product analysis. The quartz-processing organization develops equipment, jigs, and tools internally to improve work efficiency and uses an internal technical-qualification system to evaluate the skills required for each process. High-precision quartz products are made with internally designed jigs based on proprietary know-how, checked at each process, measured with a high-precision three-dimensional measuring machine after forming, and visually inspected until the specified criteria are met. For quartz-glass products, the company can propose specifications for requested conditions, manufacture new products, and repair chips, cracks, breakage, deformation caused by long use, and devitrification. Its quartz-glass workflow includes discussion of manufacturing processes and delivery requirements based on product drawings, the ability to prepare drawings when customers do not have them, processing to the agreed drawing, and final visual and instrument inspection before shipment. The quartz operation also states that it can procure materials domestically and internationally to match different needs and provide a varied product range on a timely basis. The silicone-rubber and precision-processing range includes silicone-rubber molded and extruded products, special silicone rubber, laminated mica boards, Wacom mica, punched mica products, pressure-sensitive switches and sensors, electrical-insulation materials, polishing carriers, lapping plates, and plating jigs for lead frames. Functional rubber can be integrally molded with mounting hardware so that metal or plastic is bonded during molding instead of being attached later, helping avoid bonding unevenness while retaining function and simplifying installation. The silicone-rubber range includes transparent sheets with 95 percent transmittance, approaching the transparency of glass or acrylic. Surface modification, coating, and film formation can add properties such as slipperiness, grip, water repellency, hydrophilicity, and increased surface hardness while retaining rubber elasticity. For silicone-rubber products, the organization provides support across development and transition to mass production, with final visual and measuring-instrument inspection before shipment. Silicone-rubber compounds are prepared from high-polymer dimethylpolysiloxane with fine silica as a reinforcing material and other additives, then cured with agents such as organic peroxides or catalysts to form an elastomeric silicone rubber. Rubber hardness is measured according to ISO and JIS K 6253 methods, and IRHD-M micro-hardness measurement is available for O-rings and small-dimension products in addition to general durometer measurement. Customer-requested colors can be prepared internally by mixing pigments into silicone-rubber compounds before molding.
Capabilities and products
- clean molding of silicone rubber for semiconductor and medical applications
- glass-laminate electrical insulation and thermal insulation boards
- mica electrical insulation and thermal insulation boards
- noncontact optical dimensional measurement of silicone rubber
- Silicone gel sheet molding
- double-sided polishing carriers for wafers and glass substrates
- quartz rectangular tanks for semiconductor processing
- Transparent/translucent quartz glass tubes and semiconductor process tubes
- quartz boats for semiconductor processing
- transparent and opaque quartz glass plates
- custom quartz glass machining and drawing preparation
- repair of quartz glass damage, deformation and devitrification
- extruded silicone rubber products
- die-cut mica products
- pressure-sensitive switches
- sensors
- lapping plates
- lead-frame plating fixtures
- integral molding of silicone rubber with metal/plastic
- Silicone rubber sheet molding with light transmittance up to 95%
- silicone rubber surface modification for slip, grip and hydrophilic/hydrophobic properties
- custom silicone rubber color compounding
- IRHD-M hardness measurement of O-rings and small rubber parts
- mold-release material manufacturing
- solvent manufacturing