China Polysilicon Industry on a Brink China has become the world’s greatest solar manufacturer in just 4 years as its state backed companies invested billions of dollars into the business. The country’s low cost labor and capital quickly became the world’s biggest by massively driving down costs of making solar wafers, cell and panels. Most […]

Leading solar wafer companies like Renesola (SOL), GCL Poly Energy, SAS and others remain under pressure due to the below cost prices of solar wafers. The whole solar wafer industry saw a huge expansion during 2010 and 2011 along with the other parts of the supply chain. As solar wafer equipment prices came down, companies […]

Polysilicon Prices The prices of polysilicon have gone up a bit in the last few months as poly producers have sharply reduced utilization to 50% or lower. With prices at $15/kg and costs of $30/kg, many of the smaller poly producers have just shut shop and left the industry. However the bigger players which account […]

GCL Poly China based GCL Poly is the biggest solar wafer producer in the world. GCL Poly raised its wafer capacity almost 85% in 2011. The company’s strategy of setting up plants near its major customers landed it major deals and lower the cost in the supply chain. This Chinese company  became one the biggest producers […]

Polysilicon Polysilicon Companies have seen an amazing amount of profits in the period between 2008-2011 end as prices of polysilicon shot up to $400/kg which resulted in profit margins of greater than 90% which is superlative for what is an essentially a commodity. Polysilicon capacity has almost grown by 10x in the last 5-6 years […]

European Solar Companies Solar Companies in Europe have been falling like nine pins for almost a year now and the carnage shows no sign of stopping. Though all solar panel companies are ailing, not all companies had thrown in the towel. The biggest failure till now was the bankruptcy of the erstwhile global no. 1 […]