SMS Siemag will supply all equipment and factory design services for the plant, which will be located at the Icelandic port of Grundartangi, and have an initial capacity of 16,000 metric tonnes per year. Silicor believes it will be able to optimise the plant to boost the output by another 20%.
“We’re taking meaningful steps to get this plant off the ground in an aggressive timeframe,” says Silicor chief executive Theresa Jester.
Silicor – which is based in California, and backed by the private-equity firm Hudson Clean Energy Partners – claims its proprietary metals-based technology has a capex cost just one-third that of the traditional polysilicon production process.
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