Missouri-based MEMC, whose core business remainssupplying wafers to the semiconductor industry, insists the name change “doesnot reflect a change in business strategy related to either of [our] segments”— semiconductor materials and solar energy
But the proposal nevertheless offers interesting insightinto the direction in which the company believes it will evolve in the comingyears.
The name change, which would not go into effect until Mayat the earliest, would “better reflect the synergistic nature of the twobusinesses and help create and maintain one powerful, global brand name”, MEMCsays.
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