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.
Wacker’s
revelation
that
the
polysilicon
market
–
in
freefall
for
more
than
a
year
and…
