CCMPEUR

Cmc Materials, Inc.

A maker of chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) slurries and pads, CMC Materials (once called Cabot Microelectronics Corporation) supplies the abrasive chemical mixtures that polish and flatten silicon wafers at each layer of a computer chip. It was spun off from the chemical giant Cabot Corporation in 2000 and is based in Aurora, Illinois. The CMC in its name simply stands for Cabot Microelectronics.