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On January 20, 2014, the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China implemented trade remedy measures for the US import of solar grade polysilicon from 53.3% to 57% anti-dumping duties. Subsequently, on August 14, the 58th document was issued, and it was decided to suspend the application for import of solar-grade polysilicon processing trade from September 1 of the current year. Since the implementation of Circular 58, European and American polysilicon manufacturers have successively lost some of the Chinese market and exported to Taiwan, South Korea and other places, resulting in oversupply of polysilicon outside China. The current price is maintained at a low level of US$13.5~14/kg.
Recently, China’s top leaders visited the United States. In order to solve the polysilicon predicament, REC and other US polysilicon companies seized the opportunity to initiate negotiations and hope to break the restrictions. According to a senior executive of a polysilicon company in China: “REC has proposed to help relevant Chinese government departments to coordinate the US's efforts to make concessions to China's photovoltaic cells, provided that China makes concessions in polysilicon. However, its actions have not been affected by US PV and China Polysilicon. The adoption has been negotiated with China's related battery component manufacturers, and little progress has been made so far."
REC Silicon CEO Tore Torvund said: "In order to balance the disputes between solar panels imported from China and the United States, REC Silicon was brought into the solar trade war. Now China and the United States are exploring solutions if they can find Chinese solar cells. The global solution between the board and the US polysilicon trade barrier will bring huge benefits to the photovoltaic industry."
From the shortage of silicon to self-sufficiency, the giants’ glory in the past is difficult to reproduce.
As a basic raw material for the electronics industry and the solar photovoltaic industry, high-purity polysilicon has experienced a sharp increase in demand for polysilicon in the international and domestic markets. However, at that time, the production capacity of polysilicon in the country was insufficient, and production was mainly maintained by a large amount of imported polysilicon or processing.
Strong demand stimulated the price of polysilicon. In 2001-2003, the sales price of world-class solar-grade polysilicon raw materials was roughly at 25 US dollars/kg. After 2004, prices continued to rise. In 2005, the world market exceeded US$50/kg. At $100/kg, the spot price of imported polysilicon once smashed the price of $400 per kilogram. Previously due to various reasons (technical and market monopoly needs, the lag of expansion), the advanced production technology of polysilicon raw materials is basically in the hands of several major European and American producers such as Hemlock, REC, and the growth of polysilicon raw material production is far behind. The demand for photovoltaic industry has increased. With the rapid development of the photovoltaic industry, the demand for polysilicon is growing more and more, relying more on the international market, and there is a situation in which the important raw materials of China's photovoltaic industry are subject to people.
In order to solve the polysilicon bottleneck, after nearly 10 years of development, China's polysilicon industry has made great progress, and it has fully met the demand for materials for photovoltaic enterprises. Most of the companies still operating, including Jiangsu Zhongneng, Xinjiang Daquan, TBEA, Tianhong Silicon, and Luoyang Zhongwa, can produce polysilicon products that meet the national electronic standards and uses, and can completely replace imported products.
Ten years of development, the competition between domestic enterprises and international polysilicon giants has also paid a painful price. The price and cost of polysilicon have further declined in the process of continuous technological upgrading. Early batches of local polysilicon producers such as Tianwei Silicon and Asia Silicon were eliminated. Out. It is gratifying to note that the quality and production capacity of domestic polysilicon has been increasing year by year, which has gradually reversed the global polysilicon capacity supply and market structure. According to Bloomberg data, China's polysilicon production accounted for 22.7% of the global total in 2012, up to 36.1% in 2013, and rose to 43.4% in 2014 (Figure 1).
The rise of polysilicon production has changed the previous "two-out" constraint and has become the pillar of China's photovoltaic industry development. Instead, the polysilicon production capacity in Europe and the United States has to rely on the Chinese market to digest. On the other hand, with the rise of China's PV market and the development of more emerging markets, Chinese PV module manufacturers have learned to “not put all their eggs in the same basketâ€. In this double-reverse game, the US polysilicon giant Our abacus is difficult to achieve.
Polysilicon game: US photovoltaic enterprise abacus
Abstract As China continues to impose high import tariffs on polysilicon, US polysilicon producer RECSilicon has warned that it may be forced to completely shut down its production plant in Moses Lake, Washington, and lose about 400 jobs. The largest polysilicon producer...
US polysilicon producer REC Silicon warned that it might be forced to completely shut down its production plant in Moses Lake, Washington, and lose about 400 jobs, as China continues to impose high import tariffs on polysilicon. One of the largest polysilicon producers, also located in the US, Hemlock Semiconductor, has been affected by heavy import tariffs and has stopped construction of an important new production plant.