Featured in Phoenix rising – 03-2013

Rock bottom prices

Industry ranking: Falling silicon prices have once again given wafer manufacturers a bit of breathing room. Covering production costs is still a challenge, even for the market leaders. Analysts believe that wafer prices have bottomed out.

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Mirco Sieg

01 Mar 2013

The pressure on wafer manufacturers is slowly easing. Following massive price drops along nearly every link of the value chain, prices for silicon finally followed suit in 2012. From 2011 to 2012 prices fell by roughly half. “It gives wafer manufacturers a bit more breathing room,” says Stefan de Haan, Principle Solar Research Analyst at …

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