Green Energy Technology to expand ingot and wafering capacity

September 25, 2009
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Green Energy Technology (GET) has been running its ingot and wafer production facities in both Taiwan and China at full capacity throughout the third quarter of 2009, prompting the company to announce plans to expand capacity further by the end of the year.

At its Taiwan facilities, GET said that ingot production would be expanded from 300MW to 360MW and its wafer slicing capacity increased to 300MW, up from 235MW, currently. The expansions would all take place by the end of 2009.

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In China, GET said that its wafer slicing capacity would be increased its ingot and wafer slicing capacity to 50MW respectively during 2010. GET is currently bringing online 30MW of wafer slicing capacity at its facility in Shandong, China, which will start operations in the fourth quarter of 2009.

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