Despite
another
record-breaking
year
for
global
PV
additions,
driven
in
large
part
by
an
end-of-year
spurt
of
demand,
Wacker’s
polysilicon
division
saw
its
fourth-quarter
sales
drop
32%
to
€255m
($335.8m).
“The
decline
in
semiconductor
and
solar
demand
was
stronger
than
we
had
expected,
and
caused
Q4
figures
to
come
in
below
our
estimate,”
says
chief
executive
Rudolf
Staudigl.
Wacker
says
many
of
its
customers
were
busy
clearing
their
bloated
inventories,
while
many
others
simply
walked
away
from
the
PV
game
altogether
–
lending
credence
to
the
notion
that
dozens
of
polysilicon
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