Gelest Completes New Production Facility
Gelest Completes New Production Facility, Sharpens Focus on Advanced Markets
The company will celebrate the plant opening with an official ribbon cutting May 16.
Gelest, Inc.
MORRISVILLE, Pa., May 12, 2025 – Gelest, Inc., a Mitsubishi Chemical Group company, proudly announces the grand opening of its new 50,000-square-foot production facility at its global headquarters in Morrisville, Pennsylvania. This milestone will be marked by a ribbon-cutting ceremony to be attended by company executives, local officials, and community members. The new 50,000- square-foot building will increase Gelest’s production capabilities and support customer applications from microelectronics and medical devices to advanced thermal coatings and mobility.
“Our main focus will be to develop and manufacture precursor chemicals for use in dry resist EUV lithography, ensuring a robust supply,” said Edward Kimble, Senior Business Director / General Manager, Gelest. Dry resist EUV technology is an advanced semiconductor manufacturing technique poised to propel the next generation of logic and DRAM technologies for the semiconductor market.
“The new building signifies Gelest’s advancement in increasing capacity to fulfill the growing demand for specialty materials in advanced markets, particularly microelectronics and medical devices,” stated Kimble. “This facility not only reflects our continuous investment in Gelest’s capabilities and business but also underscores our commitment to catering to the needs of advanced markets and their material application requirements.”
Located on a revitalized U.S. EPA Brownfield site, the new production facility will feature state-of-the-art equipment designed for analysis, packaging, and high volume manufacturing of highly specialized chemistries to support advanced technology markets. To assure quality and chemical purity, the facility incorporates a 3,000-square-foot, ISO 7 clean room with advanced analytical instrumentation.
“This facility underscores Mitsubishi Chemical Group’s commitment to innovation and supporting the both the U.S. and global supply chain for critical materials for current and next generation materials and applications,” said Jonathan Goff, Business Vice President, Advanced Solutions Domain.
The addition of the new production facility underpins Gelest’s ongoing expansion in Morrisville. In 2001 the company established its Morrisville headquarters, which now comprises production, R&D and administration operations. The new facility extends Gelest’s footprint to nine buildings in Morrisville, eight on-site.
About Gelest
Gelest is a U.S.-based innovator, manufacturer, and global supplier of specialty silicones, organosilanes, metal-organics, and acrylate monomers that serves advanced technology end markets including medical devices, life sciences, coatings and adhesives, microelectronics, and personal care. As a Mitsubishi Chemical Group business unit, Gelest can leverage the expertise, research and development support, and resources of one of the world’s largest and most successful chemical companies. Gelest helps contribute to customer success by developing cutting edge chemical technology, products, and services to address society’s most complex material science challenges. Learn more at www.gelest.com
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Gelest’s new 50,000-square-foot building will increase the company’s production capabilities and support advanced markets, primarily microelectronics, medical devices and automation.
