Silicon manufacturing capacity continues to increase with Sumitomo investment

Among the flurry of activities on building polysilicon capacity, a number of smaller producers are beginning to scale rapidly, in addition to the handful of polysilicon producers with volumes already exceeding 5,000 metric tons per annum, such as Hemlock and Wacker. China’s Solargiga announced this ...

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