Waaree Clean Energy Solutions (WCES), a wholly owned subsidiary of Waaree Energies Ltd, has entered the specialty gases business, aiming to become a one-stop supplier for India’s semiconductor and solar cell manufacturers.
Specialty gases such as silane, ammonia, hydrogen, phosphine and boron trichloride are used in various processes in solar cell and semiconductor manufacturing. As India expands its semiconductor, electronics and solar manufacturing capacity, it remains largely dependent on imports of high-purity process gases and chemicals.
WCES is building a specialty gases plant at GIDC Saykha in Dahej, Gujarat, to address that gap with domestic supply across India.
“Semiconductor and solar cell manufacturing cannot scale in India without a reliable, high-purity gas and chemical supply chain alongside it,” said Anuj Sharma, CEO, WCES. “This is a natural extension of our deep-tech manufacturing and clean energy expertise. It positions us to serve India’s fabs, OSAT and ATMP units, advanced electronics manufacturers and solar cell lines from day one, with product on the ground.”
The business will be developed in phases. The plan includes a specialty gas storage and handling unit designed to meet semiconductor-grade safety and purity standards, a unit for ultra-high-purity (UHP) ammonia purification, a phosphine/hydrogen (PH₃/H₂) mixing plant to produce precision gas blends for doping and deposition processes, and facilities for UHP oxygen and UHP hydrogen.
WCES will also design custom gas and chemical supply systems and nitrogen plants. Its Total Gas & Chemical Management System will cover storage, delivery, safety monitoring and inventory, so customers can focus on their core processes.
The UHP portfolio includes silane, ammonia, nitrous oxide, phosphine mixtures, boron trichloride (BCl₃), trimethyl aluminium, diborane and germane/H₂ mixes, HBr, SF₆, nitric oxide, fluorinated gases and calibration gases. All of it will be backed by pan-India supply.
The new business builds on WCES’s clean energy manufacturing base, which includes its electrolyser stack facility.
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