Matthew Neville

CMC Materials, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of chemical mechanical planarization consumables products. It operates through the following segments: Electronic Materials and Performance Material. The Electronic Materials segment consists of CMP slurries and polishing pads businesses and KMG electronic chemicals business. The Performance Materials segment includes KMG's heritage pipeline performance and wood treatment businesses and QED business. The firm offers chemical mechanical planarization slurries for polishing many of the conducting, insulating and isolating materials used in integrated circuit devices, and for polishing the disk substrates and magnetic heads used in hard disk drives. It also develops, manufactures and sells chemical mechanical planarization polishing pads, which are used in conjunction with slurries in the chemical mechanical planarization process. The company was founded by William P. Noglows in October 1999 and is headquartered in Aurora, IL.

NanoProducts Corp. manufactures nanoscale powders and nanoscale powder-derived products. The company's products include cerium oxide, zirconium silicon oxide, zinc oxide, aluminum oxide, doped aluminum oxide, copper oxide, and magnesium hydroxide. The firm was founded by Tapesh Yadav in 1994 and is headquartered in Longmont, CO

PPT Research, Inc. develops a proprietary chemistry and process technology that enables abrasive slurry management for wire saw slicing and wafer lapping. It offers a range of coolants, rinse aids, and cleaners that are critical ancillary products for the manufacture of clean and production suitable wafers. The company was founded by Irl E. Ward, Jr. on July 27, 1999 and is headquartered in Allentown, PA.

Nitride Solutions, Inc. develops and manufactures advanced nitride substrates for LEDs, lasers, and power electronics. It offers aluminum nitride templates for use in deep-UV light emitting diodes; bulk aluminum nitride substrates that enable high-power switches, motor controls, and UV laser diodes; and high-quality aluminum nitride coatings on copper or aluminum that simplify electronic device structures while maintaining thermal conductivity and voltage resistance. The company’s products are used in water and air, power generation, and transmission and higher-speed communication applications worldwide. Nitride Solutions was founded by Jeremy Kinsley Jones, Jason Adam Schmitt and Peng Lu in 2009 and is headquartered in Wichita, KS.