Jean Pol Delrue

CMC Materials, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and sale of chemical mechanical planarization consumables products. It operates through the following segments: Electronic Materials and Performance Material. The Electronic Materials segment consists of CMP slurries and polishing pads businesses and KMG electronic chemicals business. The Performance Materials segment includes KMG's heritage pipeline performance and wood treatment businesses and QED business. The firm offers chemical mechanical planarization slurries for polishing many of the conducting, insulating and isolating materials used in integrated circuit devices, and for polishing the disk substrates and magnetic heads used in hard disk drives. It also develops, manufactures and sells chemical mechanical planarization polishing pads, which are used in conjunction with slurries in the chemical mechanical planarization process. The company was founded by William P. Noglows in October 1999 and is headquartered in Aurora, IL.

CMP Europe Ltd. served the UK & European IT & Games industries through its portfolio of marketing information and service products including trade events, publications and data products, since 1999. The company also delivered integrated media solutions to B2B vertical market sectors including Healthcare, Property, Entertainment, Travel, Agriculture and Print. Its products included were magazines, exhibitions, conferences, directories and websites. In early 2003 United Business Media’s CMP Information (CMPi) and CMP Europe were combined and formed CMP Information Group.