A few China- and Taiwan-based solar cell makers are fully utilizing their production capacities due to increased demand and therefore cannot accept new orders, while some tier-two makers have been unwilling to hike capacity utilization to ...
According to Taiwan's Photonic Industry and Technology Development Association (PIDA), multiple factors such as low prices, falling demand in Europe and continuous incentive cuts caused the solar industry to see falling output value in ...
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Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) saw December revenues reach NT$739 million (US$25 million), representing an on-month decrease of 3.75% and on-year decrease of 15.97%. 2012 revenues were NT$9.837 billion, ...
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The Taiwan-based solar supply chain is likely to enter a period of consolidation. For upstream material providers, consolidation between downstream customers may create pressure on their costs. Digitimes recently sat down with Chi-jen Chen, ...
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Taiwan-based solar conductive paste maker Giga Solar has reported December revenues of NT$181 million (US$6.23 million), showing a decrease of 34.42% on month and a decrease of 0.18% on year. The accumulated total revenues for 2012 were ...
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Tier-one China-based solar wafer makers have decreased shipments to control supply in an attempt to increase prices later in January, according to industry sources in Taiwan. In line with the price increase of 5-10% aimed by Taiwan-based ...
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Taiwan-based tier-one solar cell firms plan to increase prices by 5-10%. According to downstream solar firms in Taiwan, solar cell makers previously did try to increase prices in the second half of 2012 but in the end were not successful. ...
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Lin Her-lon, chairman of Taiwan-based solar wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET), has said that orders have been strong and capacity is fully booked. Lin added that the firm has been planning to rent solar wafer manufacturing ...
Weather conditions and holidays in Europe and the US are likely to cause Taiwan-based solar firms to report falling December revenues. Some firms have been seeing orders returning for January and expect relatively good performance despite ...
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While tier-one China-based solar module makers quote EUR0.45/watt in the Europe market and US$0.6/watt in the US market, a few tier-two China-based fellow makers are dumping solar modules at EUR0.34/watt in the Europe market, decreasing by ...
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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 price of 6-inch solar wafers has hovered around US$1.05-1.10/unit in recent months,however,due to falling capacity utilization rates and dwindling demand in Europe,recent pricing has fallen close to US$1/unit. The price of 6-inch ...
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 US International Trade Commission(ITC)announced the result of the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation against China-based solar firms on November 7,2012.China-made solar cells will be subject to 14.78-15.97%anti-subsidy tariffs ...
Tags: ITC, China based solar firms, anti-subsidy tariffs, solar cells
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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