Wacker had short-timed the workers last autumn as demand for the PV feedstock dried up further along the supply chain.

Having sold more polysilicon than expected in January, however, Wacker Polysilicon president Ewald Schindlbeck says the company is ramping back up in Burghausen, where utilisation currently stands at two-thirds of full capacity.

“Our order intake has increased so much over the last few weeks that plant-utilisation levels are currently insufficient to produce the quantities ordered,” says Schindlbeck.

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