Global CMP Slurry Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Global CMP Slurry Market Research Report 2023-Competitive Analysis, Status and Outlook by Type, Downstream Industry, and Geography, Forecast to 2029

Chemical mechanical polishing/planarization (CMP) slurries are abrasive materials, also called non-crystalline inorganic oxides, which are dispersed in water blended with other chemicals and used in CMP processes for semiconductors.

Market Overview:

The latest research study on the global CMP Slurry market finds that the global CMP Slurry market reached a value of USD 1702.66 million in 2022. It’s expected that the market will achieve USD 2753.34 million by 2028, exhibiting a CAGR of 8.34% during the forecast period.

Impacts from the short-term

The COVID-19 epidemic has postponed or canceled the technology exhibition, shut down operations in the electronics, industrial and automotive fields, and also harmed the supply chain of CMP slurry raw materials. These factors will damage the prospects of the CMP slurry market in the short term. And most of the factories have not yet been fully operational, which also limits the overall supply of the CMP Slurry market, thereby reducing the industry's ability to deal with the backlog and quickly recover from losses.

Impacts from the long-term

After the end of COVID-19, the application of electronics in the field of healthcare will generate abundant opportunities during and after COVID-19. The demand for this end-use vertical market will pave the way for a strong recovery in the CMP Slurry industry. In the long run, CMP Slurry companies must have their own core competitiveness to survive, such as products, channels, marketing, management, technology, cost advantages, etc.

Entegris Acquires CMP Slurry Manufacturer Sinmat

January 10, 2020

Entegris, Inc., a leader in specialty chemicals and advanced materials solutions, announced today it has acquired Sinmat, a CMP slurry manufacturer. Located in Gainesville, Florida, Sinmat is now part of the Specialty Chemicals and Engineered Materials (SCEM) Division of Entegris. Sinmat is a leader in the design and production of Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) slurries used for polishing ultra-hard surface materials, including SiC (silicon carbide) and GaN (gallium nitride). SiC and GaN are substrates utilized in the fast-growing end-markets of power electronics and advanced communications. The combination of Sinmat slurry technology with Entegris broad capabilities in CMP cleans, filtration and applications technology will enable new solutions for Entegris CMP customers.

Region Overview:

From 2022-2027, Asia Pacific is estimated to witness robust growth prospects.

Company Overview:

Cabot Microelectronics is one of the major players operating in the CMP Slurry market, holding a share of 20.21% in 2022.

Cabot Microelectronics

Cabot Microelectronics Corporation supplies slurries used in chemical mechanical planarization; a polishing process used in the manufacture of integrated circuit devices. The slurries are liquids containing abrasives and chemicals that enhance the polishing process. The polishing process itself facilitates the manufacture of smaller, faster, and more complex integrated circuit devices. Cabot offers a variety of Chemical Mechanical Polishing solutions to the semiconductor industry.

DuPont

DuPont is one of the largest chemical companies in the world. DuPont is involved in a range of different industry areas, including high-performance materials, synthetic fibers, electronics, specialty chemicals, agriculture, CMP Slurry and biotechnology.

Segmentation Overview:

By type, Colloidal Silica Slurry segment accounted for the largest share of market in 2021.

Alumina Slurry

Alumina Slurry is one of the most versatile sorbents for preparative chromatography. Due to its amphoteric character, aluminum oxide can be used in specifically defined pH ranges.

Colloidal Silica Slurry

Colloidal Silica is a slurry that is used for final polishing in a number of industries. Unlike standard abrasive slurries, colloidal silica falls into a category called C.M.P, or Chemical Mechanical Polishing.

Ceria Slurries

Ceria slurry which excels in step flattening property, material selectivity, uniformity, and has less frequency of defects, as a raw material solution including polishing conditions.

Application Overview:

By application, the Wafers segment occupied the biggest share from 2017 to 2022.

Wafers

During the CMP process, a wafer surface is polished for planarization using a slurry and a polishing pad. The abrasive particles in the slurry grind against the sample surface, loosening material. The chemicals in the slurry then etch and dissolve the material.

Optical Substrate

CMP is a surface polishing and material removal process that involves chemical attack and abrasive removal. The CMP slurry is used in combination with a CMP pad or polished fluff, rotating it during the planarization process and keeping it close to the optical substrate surface. This allows Optical Substrate to achieve nano-surface roughness and micron-level flatness.

Disk Drive Components

CMP slurry plays a critical role in providing a new level of performance and cost benefit to manufacturers of rigid disks and magnetic heads, two critical components of the disk drive. Rigid Disk slurries are specially formulated to planarize Ni-P and glass substrates to an ultra-low roughness and defects. Magnetic Head slurries are capable of polishing multi-materials in a single step, with tunable selectivity to meet stringent surface topography planarization requirements.

Key Companies in the global CMP Slurry market covered in Chapter 3:

DuPont
Hitachi Chemical
Anji Microelectronics
Asahi Glass
KC Tech
Fujifilm
WEC Group
Saint-Gobain
Merck KGaA(Versum Materials)
Ace Nanochem
JSR Micro Korea Material Innovation
Cabot Microelectronics
Fujimi Incorporated
Ferro (UWiZ Technology)
Soulbrain

In Chapter 4 and Chapter 14.2, on the basis of types, the CMP Slurry market from 2018 to 2029 is primarily split into:

Alumina Slurry
Colloidal Silica Slurry
Ceria Slurries
Others

In Chapter 5 and Chapter 14.3, on the basis of Downstream Industry, the CMP Slurry market from 2018 to 2029 covers:

Wafers
Optical Substrate
Disk Drive Components
Others

Geographically, the detailed analysis of consumption, revenue, market share and growth rate, historic and forecast (2018-2029) of the following regions are covered in Chapter 8 to Chapter 14:

North America (United States, Canada)
Europe (Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland, Sweden)
Asia Pacific (China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia)
Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina)
Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, South Africa)