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Though rapid growth of Solar Wafer shipment was less than their bottom solar cell growing so cute continuing shortage of solar wafers, which is due to the rising cost of the shortage of polysilicon and wafers, wafer selling price increase to 2.25 USD / W in 2006, from 2.15USD / W in 2005. and 2.38 USD / W in 2007H1, we estimate that the trend will continue in 2007H2 and the ASP of 2007 will reach 2.40USD / W.
About the supply and demand, the shortage of wafer is 16MW in 2005,140 MW in 2006, and will expand to 180MW in 2007 okay? 2007 China solar grade wafer or ingot industry
forecasts research report, 2008 and future years are still below the wafer. However,
Price of the lander solar cells continue in the coming years, so it will bring some price decrease (not large) of the wafer.
Since wafer shortages continue and greatly increased downstream demand, more and more investors enter wafer industry and the wafer manufacture also expand their capacity rapidly, although the capacity expansion is easy, wafer shipment increase is not easy to follow the shortage of polysilicon.
2006 of several silicon solar wafer supply crystal was 110 MW, while the supply of monocrystalline silicon wafers was more than 280mW, single crystal silicon wafer is much more than sending more of silicon crystal the wafer, is very different then, the international multi crystal wafer shipment almost twice of silicon single-crystal silicon supply of wafers. China local single crystal silicon wafer shipment was 2.7times of multi crystal silicon wafer. The most important reason for this situation is unique silicon wafer Glass is easy to manufacture silicon wafers, glass as the team of multiple keys that drive the machine is easy bought in China with a low cost, while that the multi crystal DSS furnace only can buy from oversea market with high cost .. but this situation will change in 2012, right? 2007 China wafer level solar or ingot industry forecasts Research Report, 2012 China local multi crystal silicon wafer shipment will be 1.5 times of a single silicon wafer shipment lens, the change mainly due to some very large projects crystal wafers of various customers and downstream demand as sufficient multiple crystal silicon wafers is cheap and good.
Income in 2006 China wafer was $ 899 million, increased 191% to $ 309 million in
2005. while income of 2007 increased 148% to reach 2.226 billion in 2006, and which maintain a high growth rate in coming years. About utilization, due to shortages polysilicon, total utilization of China wafer less than 50% when the downstream demand is large. Using step by step increase in the coming years and reach 60% or less in line with forecasts wafer 2007 China solar grade or ingot industry research report.
In China as a major base of the cell solar manufacturing, most wafers were sold to local customers, but also has about 20% is sold to overseas market, Taiwan is the largest region sold in foreign markets, the European Union, USA, Kore, Japan also have some demand. about Rae materials, as polysilicon shortage and most manufacturers of polysilicon order is completed by end 2008, so almost all raw materials from renewable or high price spot market polysilicon.Some large and famous manufacturers (such as Jinglong LDK Yingli Solar Trina Solar etc) have signed several contracts to supply long-term polysilicon, but most contracts not supply polysilicon before 2009. revewable material and high price spot polysilicon market is the main raw material in China local wafer industry. By the way, almost all Wafer manufacturers net income rate is higher than cell suppliers, some companies rate of net income over 30%, which carry a lot of new enter as most equipment vendors can offer one stop sales of the solution to the wafer fab. Investors who have capital, intermediate customers, and also have relationship with some upstream raw material suppliers to enter this industry, in fact, the draft almost all large wafers and large occurred during 2005-August 2007. and also some new enter in the coming years. Thus, competition of China wafer industry will be serious. Research Team suggest that new owners enter the own raw material advantage in the competition.
Porcelain solar grade wafer or ingot industry research report is a report mainly introduce China's industrial chain of solar wafers, the report included wafer upstream industry contents as sources of polysilicon feedstock, Furance (ingot pulling machine DSS furnace), wire saw equipment (squarers wire saws) and content sources quantity.Ingot wafer industry as ingots wafer supply shipments sales demand price revenue net income capacity and capacity expanding information, information from equipment manufacturers, etc., downstream clients contents as: market demand of wafer, downstream clients by manufacturer, regional income etc.Through and market share study and detailed investigation of the whole chain of wafers in the industry, the report may show a deep and excellent introduction to China wafer industry and fit for investor marketing and strategy planning of the company.
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction 1
2. Solar Grade Wafer Industry Executive Summary 4
3. Shipments and revenues ,2005-2012 17
4. Wafer sales price 23
5. Manufacturing capacity and utilization of ,2005-2007 27
6. Equipment and materials (polysilicon) 29
7. Number 32 manufacturers of solar wafers
8. Conclusions and Suggestions 167
