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Wackers new poly plant

Charleston plant opening: A fitting opening for Wackers $2.5 billion polysilicon plant in Tennessee was held in mid-April, and pv magazine was invited along to see first-hand the innovation and scope of ambition on display.

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Sam Pothecary

11 May 2016

An unseasonably warm day welcomed the official opening of Wacker’s capacious new state-of-the-art polysilicon manufacturing facility in Charleston, Tennessee. With $2.5 billion spent on the facility, it is Wacker’s largest single investment ever and will increase the company’s high-grade polysilicon production capacity by 20,000 metric tons annually. But the tone of the day was not …

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