China's solar supply chain has been dumping inventory recently but this has been easing as the number of competitors decreases. Many small- and medium-size firms are unlikely to revive production in 2013 and this has been causing the price ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Dumping, China
Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech plans to introduce P-type mono-crystalline solar cells with an efficiency of 20% in first-half 2013, according to Wen-Whe Pan, company president and COO. Pan added that initial mass production capacity ...
Tags: Gintech, solar cell, Gintech Energy, solar cell market
Commentary:Zero export tariff on China-made solar wafers likely to push down global wafer prices Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES,Taipei[Friday 11 May 2012]China-based solar firms have been demanding the government cut export tariffs on solar wafers ...
Tags: motech industries, zero export tariff on China-made solar wafers
When the solar industry was experiencing a boom before 2010, many firms were attracted to enter the market and began massive investments, causing an oversupply which has seen many firms face financial trouble. In 2011 alone, 40 firms, ...
Tags: solar industry, South Korea, polysilicon, OCI
GCL-Poly Energy Holdings, the largest China-based maker of polysilicon and solar-grade crystalline silicon wafers, reportedly plans to take over a 20% stake in Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell maker Motech Industries from Taiwan ...
The European Commission is expected to announce its position on the anti-dumping investigation requested by solar firms in Europe on September 6,2012.Solar firms around the world have been waiting for the announcement since Europe-based ...
The weak solar market has been delaying technological improvements for solar firms. Despite the fact that N-type mono-crystalline high efficiency product may achieve a breakthrough that P-type mono- and multi-crystalline solar product ...
Tags: solar market, solar firms, new technologies
Japan-based solar cell maker Kaneka reportedly plans to move technology for heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer (HIT) solar cells to Taiwan, helping Taiwan-based firms to begin mass production. Kaneka is said to be discussing ...
Tags: HIT, solar cells, Kaneka, NSP
Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech has revealed that the firm has cut down its workforce by 40 employees.The firm added that the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation in the US previously helped increase OEM orders from China and ...
Solar industry to comprise of 4 major categories differing by technology,says NSP chairman Patty Wang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Monday 8 October 2012]Quincy Lin,chairman of Taiwan-based solar cell maker Neo Solar Power(NSP),has ...
Tags: solar industry, NSP, PV Taiwan 2012 CEO Forum, energy
Germany-based Heraeus Holding GmbH on October 2 started production of PV silver conductive paste at a factory in northern Taiwan to supply to Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers,according to Tobias Caspari,the company's ...
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As China-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers are expected to release orders to makers in Taiwan, while Europe- and Japan-based vendors will shift orders from China to Taiwan to avoid anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariffs ...
Tags: crystalline silicon solar cell maker, anti-subsidization rates
Taiwan-based Delta Electronics and Neo Solar Power (NSP) held a joint press conference to announce the plans on NSP buying 13-15% of shares of DelSolar, the solar subsidiary of Delta, starting at November 20 to December 14, 2012. Delta ...
Tags: Neo Solar Power, DelSolar
Thintech Materials, Taiwan's largest supplier of aluminum target material with a market share of over 50%, has revealed that it has sent samples of its aluminum and silver-aluminum conductive pastes for solar products for certification. ...
Tags: Thintech Materials, aluminum target material, solar products
Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell maker Motech Industries will issue Euro convertible bonds(ECBs)worth US$130 million to raise funds for overseas materials procurement,with the issuance expected to be finished in early ...
Tags: crystalline silicon solar cell, Taiwan, Motech Industries, solar firms