In an update to its polysilicon plant construction project, LDK Solar has said that its smaller 1,000MT plant has been completed and plant process commissioning has commenced. Eight reactors and one converter in the reactor/converter station, and eight distillation/purification columns, heat exchangers and associated piping in the TCS purification station have all been completed.
With regards to its larger 15,000 MT polysilicon plant, LDK Solar said that work continues on schedule while reiterating that its plans to produce between 5,000 and 7,000 MT of polysilicon in 2009, have not changed.