Top Chinese Solar Firm Tongwei Plans $4 Billion Factory as Consolidation Looms - Bloomberg
Chinese Solar Firm Tongwei Plans $4 Billion Factory as Consolidation Looms - Bloomberg
Top Chinese Solar Firm Tongwei Plans $4 Billion Factory as Consolidation Looms
- Tongwei’s project in Inner Mongolia will launch in two phases
- Company says the new facility is timed to sector’s recovery
Tongwei Co., the world’s largest manufacturer of a key material for solar panels, said it will build a massive new factory in northern China just as the industry struggles with a price war and a looming wave of consolidation.
Tongwei has agreed with local authorities in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, to invest 28 billion yuan ($3.9 billion) in a two-phase project that will eventually have capacity to produce 500,000 tons of industrial silicon and 400,000 tons of polysilicon annually, the Chengdu, Sichuan-based company said in a stock exchange filing on Monday.
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