Sunlit Chemical, a semiconductor supplier based in Taiwan, has broken ground on a plant near the Deer Valley Airport in north Phoenix—the company’s first U.S. manufacturing facility. The project’s 17-acre site includes the 190,000-sq-ft Sunlit Arizona building, which will produce hydrofluoric acid and other high-grade industrial chemicals in the first phase and is expected to be operational in spring 2023. As the team expands its operations, an upcoming phase will focus on raw material purification; that unit should be operational in 2025.
Spaces in the initial building include a 14,000-sq-ft, two-story office area incorporating steel, a glass curtain wall and CMU accents; an 84,000-sq-ft, one-story production center; 40,000 sq ft of 50-ft-tall storage; 50,000 sq ft of preengineered metal canopy for ISO tank storage, which will include a 30-ton crane for moving the tanks; and a 4,000-sq-ft CMU waste treatment plant. Weiss-Magness Architects, Phoenix, is the architect for the design-build project, which is being built by Brycon Corp.