Leadership Proficiency
Semiconductor & Advanced Materials.High-Purity Wet Chemical Operations.
Buy-Side Experience — Directing Wet Chemical Operations. Buying Incumbent Container Systems.
Supply-Side Experience — Leading Advanced Materials Operations. Supplying the Same Container Systems.
Over six decades of experience leading chemical divisions at C&EN Global Top 10 corporations and serving in executive positions at Fortune 500 companies making advanced semiconductor materials.
We have been the customer: directing wet chemical operations, paying for container systems the fab specified, buying them from one qualified source. We know what that costs a producer, line by line.
We have been the supplier: leading the global operations that qualified these systems to the fab’s file and held them there, lot by lot, for years. We know what it takes to stay qualified, year after year.
Houston, Texas, United States
Kurko is headquartered in Houston, Texas, the center of U.S. petrochemical and industrial chemical production. The location puts Kurko's manufacturing facility next to the chemical producers who fill its containers, on the road and rail network that serves North America's fab corridors, and on a deep-water port that reaches the rest of the world.
Gulf Coast plants for semiconductor-grade acids, bases, solvents, and slurries are nearby, keeping empty-container trips to filling sites short.
Road and rail access to the fab clusters in Texas, Arizona, Ohio, and New York, where new capacity is being built under U.S. onshoring programs.
Deep-water shipping to chemical producers and end-use customers in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the same U.S. facility.
USA-made container systems for a chemical supply chain that is moving onshore. Domestic and international customers all served from Texas.
04 / Production
From ultra-pure resin to finished containers, every step is performed in a controlled cleanroom environment using ultra-high purity air to meet the most demanding semiconductor applications.
01 / 06Manufacturing process
Qualified HDPE resin enters at one point of intake and is held in closed silos or bulk bags inside a controlled environment — isolated from ambient dust and moisture from the day it arrives until it is called to the line.
02 / 06Manufacturing process
Resin is dried with ultra-pure air before it reaches the molder. Moisture that would cause voids and surface defects is removed, and because the drying air contacts every pellet, it is filtered before it touches the resin.
03 / 06Manufacturing process
Containers are blow molded inside a cleanroom supplied with ultra-pure air. The interior wetted surface — the surface the chemical will contact — is formed and cooled in that environment, with no exposure to open plant air.
04 / 06Manufacturing process
Inside the cleanroom, Keyed Diptube Inserts are installed, closures are fitted, and each unit is sealed before it leaves the controlled environment — so the wetted surface is never open to the plant floor.
05 / 06Manufacturing process
Every container is leak-tested and inspected before release — visual and dimensional checks on each unit, purity verification by lot. Records follow the lot, giving traceability from resin receipt to shipped unit.
06 / 06Manufacturing process
Sealed containers are palletized and packaged for transport, then staged in a controlled environment until they ship — so the unit reaches the fill site in the state it left the cleanroom, still sealed from the line.
