SolarWorld announced its subsidiary, Deutsche Solar AG, would increase silicon recycling to expand its capacity to generate silicon internally. The company will establish a second production facility where used silicon will be recycled for use again.
“With the new investments, we will double our previous upgrading capacity thus keeping pace with the expansion of the capacity in wafer production. The investment volume for the new production hall amounts to some five million euro,” explains Peter Woditsch, CEO of Deutsche Solar AG.
“The ‘Solar Material’ division is responsible for our internal raw materials activities which also include recycling. We will employ newly developed technologies that will be able to recycle raw materials which have so far not been economically usable,” said divisional manager Karsten Wambach. The raw materials that the Solar Material division recycles for Deutsche Solar AG includes both silicon cuttings from our own wafer production and material bought externally. “In the future we will make our competences in silicon recycling available as a service to other companies,” he continued.
SolarWorld also announced it will intensify business activities in Asia in the context of the take-over of the solar silicon activities of the Shell Group. “We will strengthen our contacts in South Korea and Japan in a target-oriented fashion to promote our solar business in those countries as well,” says Frank Asbeck, CEO. “In selected growth markets we are expecting double digit growth rates.”
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