BILLERICA, Mass., July 13, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Entegris, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENTG) announced today that it has entered into a worldwide patent license agreement with 3S Korea Co., Ltd. (KOSDAQ:060310) covering a suite of Entegris patents for 300 mm front opening shipping box (FOSB) products used to transport silicon wafers for semiconductor manufacturing. The agreement, which includes an initial licensing fee and royalty payments for past and future shipments of 300 mm FOSBs, allows 3S Korea to manufacture and sell its 300 mm FOSB.

"This agreement reflects a comprehensive intellectual property strategy that includes licensing certain segments of our patented technologies.  This strategy complements our expanding sales of our 300 mm FOSB products which are gaining traction in the market," said William Shaner, Vice President and General Manager of the Microenvironments Division of Entegris. "We are excited to see the value of our state-of-the-industry wafer shipping technologies increase as we grow our licensee base."

With this latest agreement, Entegris has entered into licensing agreements with all but one major shipping box supplier that use similar 300 mm FOSB technology. These agreements leverage the extensive amount of research and development that is done at the company and allow broad access to this innovative technology by wafer manufacturers who need to safely transport wafers to their customers.

ABOUT ENTEGRIS

Entegris provides a wide range of products for purifying, protecting and transporting critical materials used in processing and manufacturing in semiconductor and other high-tech industries. Entegris is ISO 9001 certified and has manufacturing, customer service or research facilities in the United States, China, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan. Additional information can be found at www.entegris.com.

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ABOUT 3S Korea Co., Ltd.

3S Korea Co., Ltd. is a Korea-based company engaged in the manufacturing of calorimeters. The Company provides its products under two categories: calorimeters and environment test equipment. Its calorimeters include system multi air conditioning (AC) calorimeters, psychometric type AC calorimeters, air to air type heat exchanger calorimeters, balanced ambient room type calorimeters, automotive AC calorimeters, automotive compressor calorimeters, thermal resistance and dew point testing equipment, data acquisition systems, air flow measuring equipment, fan performance measuring equipment, compressor testing equipment and others. The environment test equipment includes artificial environment test equipment, equipment for room AC, housing all-weather type equipment, automotive wind tunnel type equipment and artificial snowfall apparatus. In addition, the Company is involved in semiconductor business, providing semiconductor equipment such as front opening shipping boxes.  Additional information can be found at http://www.3sref.com/

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          Steve Cantor, VP of Corporate Relations
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          Billerica, MA 01821 USA

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