[caption id="" align="alignright" width="304"] At left, Jack Dority, president, PetroChem Mechanical Services, Inc. and Jeff Genovesi, division manager, high purity systems, photographed in the Atomix mobile "fab lab." | Donna Abbott-Vlahos|Albany Business Review[/caption]

PetroChem Mechanical Services has expanded its pipe welding business to serve the emerging semiconductor and nanotechnology companies in the Albany, New York area.

The new division, called Atomix High Purity Piping, welds, fabricates and installs piping in clean room conditions at its office in Rensselaer.

Jack Dority, CEO, said the company has invested more than $250,000 in the project. It is meant to serve the clean room piping needs of the $10 billion GlobalFoundries computer chip manufacturing plant in Malta, the SUNY Polytechnic Institute and others.

"There's a growing need for this skill as more chip fab plants are being built and GlobalFoundries looks to expand to a second manufacturing plant," Dority said.

READ MORE