The Kansas Semiconductor Manufacturing Consortium (KSMC)  is an emerging rural regional semiconductor manufacturing cluster recently formed as a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between local government, higher education, and semiconductor component manufacturing partners. The formation of this entity creates the co-location of like-minded partners in a contiguous geographic area providing component manufacturing facilities, suppliers, and workforce development programs that share critical infrastructure, like equipment, space, and talent in ways that maximize efficiency. 

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Coffey County, Kansas is uniquely positioned in two distinctive ways. First, due to prudent fiscal policy and management by the Coffey County Commissioners, the county is uniquely able to provide capital inducements to covered entities by delivering ample development acreage and infrastructure construction that is critical to locating a campus within its jurisdictional boundaries. Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant generated capital allows Coffey County to make and sustain long-term capital investments of this type without having to resort to bond or other capital formation methods.

Equally important to this venture is the existence of nearly limitless opportunity for contiguous expansion, should future conditions dictate that need. Second, Coffey County is geographically positioned to offer a rare combination of locally existing semiconductor manufacturing prowess and locally existing proven technical workforce education in a rural, economically disadvantaged community.