polysilicon pricing

On 8 March, the Silicon Industry Branch updated the latest information on silicon material prices, which have fallen by as much as 4.8% year-on-year.

Higher polysilicon average selling prices (ASP) have led polysilicon producer Daqo New Energy to register a record US$4.6 billion in revenue in 2022.

Bank of China Securities has issued a research report which stated that the PV industry chain price has stopped rising and may even drop in the future.

Silicon prices have marginally increased in the last week, according to the latest figures from the Silicon Industry Branch of China Nonferrous Metal Industry Association published on 15 February.

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The Silicon Industry Branch said that silicon material prices continued to climb last week, seeing a weekly growth of about 11%.

Prices of various categories of silicon material have increased by 31%, in part due to increased demand from wafer manufacturers.

German chemical group Wacker Chemie posted new sales and earnings records in 2022 as the polysilicon division benefited from strong demand and higher prices.

Polysilicon prices have continued their downward slump, with a weekly decrease of 20%, now nearing the US$20/kg mark.

The downward pricing trend in the upstream of the PV industry has been transmitted to wafer and cell prices and extended to modules.