Adequate coolant, neon and argon supply are the next concerns for chip production, experts said.
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Large amounts of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, a chemical hazardous to human and animal health, were discovered in the ground near a 3M facility in Zwijndrecht, Belgium, in 2018, the Brussels Times reported. 3M was forced to halt some operations at the plant last month after the Flemish environmental agency required it cease emissions of the toxic chemicals.
The company pledged to spend 150 million euro (about $166 million) and put in place new environmental controls at the facility for air emissions, water treatment and chemical disposal.
"We are collaborative, working with the government right now to interpret the order and make sure that we can comply with the new requirements," CFO Monish Patolawala said during the J.P. Morgan Industrials Brokers Conference last month. "We have our best engineers working on it."
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