Copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film solar module developer Siva Power of San Clara, CA, USA has hired solar executive Bruce Sohn as vice-chairman of its board. Sohn was previously the key executive in the growth of cadmium ...
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PV market demand plunged rapidly as expected as it entered in the third quarter, driving significant price decline across the PV supply chain. Prices of solar cells and wafer have reached new low for consecutive weeks. Consequently, ...
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PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials will distribute a cash dividend per share of NT$15.00 (US$0.476) for 2014 operations, accounting for 61.12% of the corresponding EPS of NT$24.54, according to the company. Giga Solar recorded ...
Germany-based Heraeus has announced joint possession with Japan-based Shoei Chemical of a patent regarding Te (tellurium)-added glass material used to make conductive silver PV paste. The patent is likely to kick up patent disputes with ...
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At a mobile phone shop along Moi Avenue in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, dozens of customers queued patiently at the counter waiting to be served. Most of them were to buy a mobile phone. Among the various kinds of mobile phone displayed ...
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Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials is expected to see orders from China grow, as a result of the US decision to reduce antitrust tariffs it set in 2012 for China-made PV modules, according to industry observers. ...
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Crystalline-silicon solar cell maker Gintech Energy has said it has stopped using front-side PV silver paste produced by Giga Solar Materials to avoid potential legal disputes. The Taiwan-based cell maker said the decision was made in ...
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PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials began shipments of front-side and back-side PV silver pastes in 2013 and expects to ship 240 tonnes of the PV materials in 2014, seven times the volume of 2013 and accounting for about 20% of ...
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Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials, due to booming demand for PV silver paste, has seen output short of total order volumes by 30% currently, according to company chairman Chen Chi-jen. Giga Solar shipped 40 ...
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Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials has seen increasing market share in the silver paste segment, heaping pressure on international competitors, such as DuPont, according to sources with Taiwan's solar cell makers ...
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PV silver conductive paste is currently in short supply due to a shortage of silver powder. The shortage will continue until July-August 2014, chairman Chen Chi-jen of Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials said at a ...
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Taiwan-based PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials on March 3 signed with a few local banks for a 7-year syndicated loan of JPY3.5 billion (US$34.3 million) for constructing a ground-mounted PV power-generating station with an ...
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Panasonic, along with some Japanese materials suppliers, is reportedly planning to invest around JPY100bn ($977m) in a lithium-ion car battery manufacturing plant to be established by electric carmaker Tesla Motors in the US. ...
PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials posted consolidated revenues of NT$750 million (US$24.8 million) for January, hitting a record for the seventh consecutive month and increasing 28.69% on month and 93.59% on year, according to ...
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PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials has reported consolidated revenues of NT$583 million (US$19.4 million) for December, hitting a record for the fourth consecutive month with growth of 13.4% on month and 211.03% on year. The ...
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