{"id":19649,"date":"2016-11-01T15:52:47","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T10:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/?p=19649"},"modified":"2016-11-01T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T10:22:47","slug":"polysilicon-giant-gcl-becomes-even-bigger-with-acquisition-of-bankrupt-sunedisons-polysilicon-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/2016\/11\/01\/polysilicon-giant-gcl-becomes-even-bigger-with-acquisition-of-bankrupt-sunedisons-polysilicon-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"Polysilicon Giant GCL Becomes Even Bigger With Acquisition of Bankrupt SunEdison\u2019s Polysilicon Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GCL<\/strong> which is the world\u2019s largest producer of <strong>polysilicon<\/strong> with a capacity of more than 70,000 tons per year is set to become even bigger after it buys <strong>SunEdison\u2019s polysilicon plant<\/strong> and technology. GCL will also receive SunEdison\u2019s proprietary wafer technology which it can develop further. <strong><em>GCL also owns 30% of the world\u2019s wafer capacity for solar panels.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Note GCL has been coming under pressure from fellow Chinese solar wafer producer <strong>Longi<\/strong> which has developed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/2015\/10\/21\/will-monocrystalline-silicon-panels-take-over-as-the-main-silicon-technology-from-multicrystalline-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>low cost mono wafer technology<\/em>.<\/a> This is pressurizing prices for the multi wafers that GCL produces for most of the world\u2019s large solar panel players. Wafer prices have sunk like a stone in recent times going down to as low as 13-14 cents\/watt, which is barely above the cost of production.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/images-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4933\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/images-11.jpg\" alt=\"polysilicon\" width=\"222\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenworldinvestor.com\/2016\/06\/23\/gcl-poly-panels-review-types-specifications-warranty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GCL Poly<\/a> needs to improve the <strong>efficiency of its wafer<\/strong> technology in order to remain competitive with the Longi wafers. It has started to employ <strong>black silicon and diamond wafers<\/strong> saws to get the edge back. The Solacix technology of direct wafering adds another option for GCL to lower costs and improve efficiency of its wafer technology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Coming back to polysilicon, GCL is gong to get access to <strong>SunEdison\u2019s FBR technology<\/strong> for making poly. This method has a lower production cost but it has been very difficult to master. Only <strong>REC<\/strong> besides SunEdison has managed to produce poly at a competitive price using the FBR technology. All other major producers such as <em>Wacker, OCI<\/em> uses the mainstream Siemens technology. Efforts by GCL in the past to use FBR technology to make poly has come a cropper. SunEdison\u2019s technology plus its Pasadena\u00a0 plant at $150 million is a bargain for GCL. Besides these assets, GCL will also get SunEdison\u2019s half constructed Korean plant in a JV with Samsung. This plant can add another 10000 tons of poly capacity for GCL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GCL which is the world\u2019s largest producer of polysilicon with a capacity of more than 70,000 tons per year is set to become even bigger after<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[4070],"class_list":["post-19649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gcl-poly","tag-polysilicon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}