French industrial gases company Air Liquide plans to invest nearly 200 million euros in a new nitrogen production unit in South Korea to support SK Hynix's (KRX:000660) new packaging and testing fab "P&T7", situated in Cheongju, Air Liquide said in a Wednesday release.
The Cheongju facility is an industrial project dedicated to the advanced packaging of high-bandwidth memory (HBM).
Air Liquide's new facility will supply high-purity gases and high-purity compressed air to the fab and is expected to commence operations in late 2027, the report said.