Daqo saysthe orders will soak up 70% of the output from its new manufacturing subsidiary,Xinjiang Daqo New Energy, through to the end of next year.

TheXinjiang plant, which began producing earlier this year in western China,boasts 5,000 tonnes of capacity – more than doubling Daqo’s totalpolysilicon capacity.

Daqo didnot reveal which wafer makers the new orders came from. It counts Chinesecompanies like Yingli and Solargiga among its key customers.

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