China-based polysilicon and solar wafer maker LDK Solar has obtained syndicated loans of CNY2 billion (US$321 million) from 11 local banks to ease its financial troubles, according to a report. State-run China Development Bank arranged ...
Tags: polysilicon, solar wafer
China's Ministry of Commerce, based on its investigation of solar-grade polysilicon imported from member countries of the European Union, has decided to impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidization tariffs for two years. China-based ...
Demand from China, Japan, and USA will represent about 50% of the total worldwide market share in 2014. Due to the recovery of the European market and the rise of the emerging markets, supply and demand in the PV industry will be able to ...
Tags: PV Energy, Solar Cell
As the EU begins to impose punitive tariffs on Friday on a number of Chinese solar exports, the world's largest solar market, which once fueled China's wild solar expansion, is now behind the industry's slim-down. The dust has finally ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, solar
The UAE and Saudi Arabia have emerged as the biggest markets among GCC states for the deployment of solar power, accounting for most of the projects. The six GCC countries altogether have sanctioned solar power installation projects worth ...
Tags: Solar Projects, GCC states
It was usually quiet Friday morning at the Baoshan Cement Co., Ltd. factory in east China's Jiangxi Province. The factory's production lines were shut down after it was put on a list of companies designated by the Ministry of Industry and ...
China's Ministry of Finance has decided to impose an anti-dumping security deposit on solar-grade polysilicon imported from several US- and South Korea-based producers beginning July 24. The producers subject to the antidumping security ...
On 20 June 2013, the Siberian lumber producer Lesosibirsky LDK 1 officially commissioned its new sawmill in Lesosibirsk. Two sawing lines, a HewSaw SL250 Trio and a HewSaw R200SE from the Finnish mechanical-engineering company Veisto were ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, coating
LDK Solar, a China-based solar firm reported its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. According to the firm, first-quarter net sales were US$104.3 million compared to US$135.9 million for the fourth ...
On May 6, the EU made a preliminary ruling that the Union shall levy provisional antidumping (AD) duties on China-made silicon photovoltaic modules and components at 11.8% before August 6, 2013 and at the rates below from the date for six ...
Tags: AD Duties, Photovoltaic Products
The trade war in the solar market does not seem to be stopping. Following the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariff levied on China-based firms from the US, the EU is likely to follow suit with a tariff rate above 30%. If this tariff comes ...
China-based vertically integrated solar firm, LDK Solar, reported fourth-quarter net sales of US$135.9 million, a relatively low figure compared to US$291.5 million reported in the third quarter of 2012 and US$420.2 million in the fourth ...
Tags: LDK, LDK Solar, cell solar
China-based makers' solar product shipments to Europe have been falling due to the ongoing trade dispute, but their shipments to the US, Japan and the domestic market have been rising. Due to orders related to China's Golden Sun ...
Tags: solar industry, Lighting
China-based LDK Solar has announced that due to a temporary cash-flow shortage, the firm was not able to make full payments to the holders of its 4.75% convertible senior notes due 2013 in an aggregate principal amount of US$23.793 million, ...
Suntech Power Holdings, a China-based solar module giant, said on March 11, 2013, that it has signed a forbearance agreement with the holders of more than 60% of the firm's 3% convertible notes. The forbearance agreement between Suntech and ...
Tags: Suntech, Lighting, solar module