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NorSun has formed a Joint Venture with Saudi Arabian companies Swicorp-Joussour (Swicorp) and Chemical Development Company (CDC) to build and operate a new polysilicon plant with an initial capacity equivalent to 500MW per year. The plant will be established in the industrial city of Jubail in Saudi Arabia. Read more >>

SunPower Corporation has secured a large polysilicon supply beginning in 2012 from a new polysilicon plant being located in Saudi Arabia. Two signed agreements will support in aggregate 2,500 megawatts of solar cell production, the company said. Read more >>

NanoGram Corporation has secured a third round of funding to the tune of $32 million that will be used to accelerate the development of NanoGram’s proprietary silicon solar technology and its advanced nano-materials solutions for flat panel displays, solid state lighting, lithium-ion batteries, and printed electronics, the company said. Read more >>

As part of Solland Solar Cells’ planned capacity ramps, the crystalline silicon cell producer has secured a new and extended multi-crystalline silicon wafer supply deal with Renewable Energy Corp (REC) that runs through 2015 and is worth approximately €500 million to the company. The agreement is structured as a take-and-pay contract with pre-determined prices and volumes for the entire contract period. Read more >>

LDK Solar has signed a 10-year ‘Take or Pay’ contract to supply multicrystalline wafers and polysilicon with major PV manufacturer Q-Cells AG. LDK Solar will deliver more than 6 gigawatts of multicrystalline solar wafers to Q-Cells over a ten-year period commencing in 2009 through 2018, the company said. Read more >>

SunPower Corporation has signed a five-year agreement with Jiawei SolarChina Co., Ltd. (Jiawei) to secure a supply of monocrystalline silicon ingots and silicon wafers, beginning in 2008. The deal is expected to enable SunPower to produce the equivalent of 900MW during the agreement period. Read more >>

ersol Solar Energy AG has said that another new polysilicon supply contract with Wacker Chemie AG has been signed that secures 300MWp of crystalline solar cell capacity from 2010 onwards and lasts for 9 years. The forward-looking move is due to ersol Solar’s expecting persistent polysilicon supply constraints far beyond current market expectations. Read more >>

LDK Solar has secured 312 metric tons of polysilicon to be delivered in 2008, the company said at a ceremony to celebrate the completion of site preparations and the beginning of construction of its major polysilicon plant in China. The company did not disclose the polysilicon suppliers. Read more >>

Yingli Green Energy has made further polysilicon supply procurements and furnace purchases in its bid to double production in 2008 from 200MW to 400MW in polysilicon ingots, wafers, PV cells and PV modules. A new polysilicon supply agreement with an unidentified supplier adds 40MW of PV modules over the life of three separate contracts, according to the company. Yingli currently expects the delivery of the polysilicon under the contracts to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2008. Read more >>

SunPower Corporation has said that its joint venture polysilicon ingot pulling plant in DaeJeon City, Korea will be officially opened on November 28th. Woongjin Energy Corp operates the new 46,200-square-meter plant with DC Chemical, Korea's largest chemical company, supplying a new source of polysilicon. Read more >>