Tenova Mining and Minerals announced today that its furnace specialist, Tenova Pyromet, has been awarded a contract by United Silicon, Iceland, to build a 32 MW silicon metal furnace. This is the first silicon metal furnace to be established in Iceland and, a...

In second ten-day of August, silicon metal price in US spot market rose up again due to shortage supply of materials from Brazil and Australia.

China's new photovoltaic (PV) grid capacity stood at 3.32 gigawatts (GW) in the first half of 2014, more than the total amount of new capacity installed in 2013.

China's central energy authority unveiled its photovoltaic (PV) development targets for 2014 on Aug 5th, vowing to install 13 gigawatts of new PV power capacity this year.

According to Statistic Norway, the silicon metal (Si<99.99%) export was 11772 tons, dropping by 28.3% M-O-M and down by 3.1% Y-O-Y.

As much as 3 GW of solar PV projects in the U.S. could be under threat following the confirmation last month that fresh anti-dumping tariffs will be levied on solar modules from China and Taiwan.

According to statistic of Japan Customs, Japan imported 13233 tons of silicon metal, up by 55.8% Y-O-Y.

Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. (YGE) led a weekly decline among the most-traded Chinese solar manufacturers in New York on concern their profits will be hurt as the U.S. seeks to curb imports.