Entegris Inc 's

The market for our products is highly competitive. While price is an important factor, we compete primarily on the basis of the following factors:
historical customer relationships;
breadth of product line;
technical expertise;
breadth of geographic presence;
product quality and performance;
advanced manufacturing capabilities; and
total cost of ownership;
after-sales service.
customer service and support;

We believe that we compete favorably with respect to all of the factors listed above, but there are no assurances that we will continue to do so. We believe that our key competitive strengths include our broad product line, our strong research and development infrastructure and investment, our manufacturing excellence, our advanced quality control systems, the low total cost of ownership of our products, our ability to provide our customers with quick order fulfillment and our applications expertise in semiconductor manufacturing processes. However, our competitive position varies depending on the market segment and specific product areas within these segments. While we have longstanding relationships with a number of semiconductor and other electronic device manufacturers, we also face significant competition from companies that also have longstanding relationships with other semiconductor and electronic device manufacturers and, as a result, have been able to have their products specified by those customers for use in manufacturers’ fabrication facilities.

The competitive landscape is varied, from multinational companies to small regional, narrow-portfolio focused companies. Overall, industry trends are indicating a shift to localized, cost-competitive and consolidated supply chains.

Because of the unique breadth of our capabilities, we believe that there are no global competitors that compete with us across the full range of our product offerings. Many of our competitors are local companies that participate in only a few products or in specific geographies. While there are other larger, broad-based materials suppliers, many are concentrated in specific product areas, such as filtration, specialty chemicals or materials handling. Key competitors include Pall Corporation (which was acquired by Danaher Corporation in 2015), Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd., Gemu Valves, Inc., Tokyo Keiso Co., Ltd., Mersen (France), Versum Materials, Inc., DuPont Electronic Technologies, Dow Chemical Company (including Rohm and Haas), Air Liquide, Praxair, Inc., SAES Pure Gas, Inc., Donaldson Company, Inc. and Parker Hannifin Corp.