The major solar markets such as Germany, Italy and Spain have been decreasing solar incentives in recent years causing demand to dwindle. The low demand has caused prices of solar...
Taiwan-based solar product makers have been facing tough competition from China-based integrated solar firms. The down turn in the market has shown the importance of vertical integration...
The price negotiations between polysilicon suppliers and downstream firms have been unsuccessful, but rumors in the market indicate the volume of polysilicon will likely increase...
The contract price of polysilicon for July 2011 has not yet been finalized between many polysilicon and wafer firms. Solar material providers have been rigid about keeping the price...
China-based GCL-Poly Energy Holdings has extended production from poly-Si material to solar wafers and has lowered quotes for 6-inch wafers to US$2.10, reflecting poly-Si costs of...
The continuous price drop for solar wafers and cells have been causing immense pressure on Taiwan-based solar firms. According to industry sources, the contract price of polysilicon...
The Japan earthquake has resulted in the suspension of one-quarter of the global production of silicon wafers used to make semiconductors, according to IHS iSuppli. The 25% reduction...
Solar wafer maker Eversol on November 30 announced that Lin Rongsheng has resigned as company president and will be replaced by vice president Martin Kuo.
Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech Energy will sell its stake of about 8% in fellow solar wafer maker Eversol Corporation to US-based MEMC Electronic Materials, its main supplier...
Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech Energy on September 17 announced it will amend a supply contract of solar-grade crystalline silicon wafers with MEMC Electronic Materials, with...
US-based MEMC Electronic Materials on September 8 announced that it will cease production of silicon crystal ingots and wafers at facilities in Sherman, Texas and St Peters, Missouri...
Gintech Energy, in response to a report going around the bourse that the company will terminate existing solar-grade polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) supply contracts with US-based...
Germany-based photovoltaic (PV) systems provider Conergy AG is attempting to renegotiate a solar-grade polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) supply contract with US-based MEMC Electronic...
US-based MEMC Electronic Materials has estimated that silicon wafer sales in the second quarter will outperform those in the first quarter. For 2009, the silicon wafer supplier intends...
