With the shortage of silicon carbonide, a material for traditional solar wafer slicing, and the potential for lower costs and higher production, diamond wire saw technology could...
Solar-grade wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) posted revenues of NT$1.21 billion (US$38.42 million) for April 2010, up 0.8% sequentially and 137% on year. For the first four...
Solar wafer maker Eversol posted net profits of NT$64 million (US$2.04 million) for the first four months of 2010. The company registered a net loss of NT$2.81 per share in 2009.
Wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) has reported revenues of NT$1.48 billion (US$47.09 million) for April, an increase of 86.9% from a year earlier and 3.86% on month.
South Korea-based Woongjin Energy will invest 270 billion won (US$242 million) to increase capacity for monocrystalline silicon (mono-Si) ingots to 1.1GW and wafers to 500MW by the...
China-based solar wafer producer Solargiga Energy will ramp up annual capacity from the current 350MWp to 700MWp by the end of the third quarter, according to company executive director...
Solar wafer makers are rumored to be planning to raise wafer prices in June and July, and some solar cell companies have already agreed on the price hike, according to industry sources...
Green Energy Technology (GET) on April 19 announced plans to raised NT$1.3 billion (US$41.8 million) via the issuance of 17.97 million new shares at a unit price of NT$73.1. The preliminary...
China-based GCL-Poly Energy Holdings will focus on solar power plant operation and polysilicon (poly-Si) supply in 2010, company chairman and CEO Zhu Gongshan said during a recent...
Taiwan, a key contract manufacturing base of solar cells globally, will become a main battlefield for the race between LDK Solar and Jiangsu Zhongneng Polysilicon Technology to become...
If the German government indeed reduces subsidy cut for roof top solar installations by less than 10% instead of the previously expected 16%, the global supply chain could see excess...
Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) and Green Energy Technology (GET) have introduced diamond square, a new ingot slicing process that can increase wafer output 30-40% compared to...
Solar-grade wafer maker Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$1.607 billion (US$50.3 million) for March 2010, hitting a monthly record for...
Taiwan Polysilicon Corporation (TPC) is expected to become the first Taiwan-based poly-Si maker to kick off volume production, according to industry sources. With an initial capacity...
International suppliers of polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) material have raised their contract prices from US$50-55/kg in the first quarter of 2010 to US$55/kg for the second quarter,...
