First silicon production on the Arabian Peninsula
BONN, Germany, and DOHA, Qatar, March 1, 2010 – SolarWorld is acquiring a 29 percent stake in the newly founded Joint Venture Qatar Solar Technologies headquartered in the Emirate of Qatar. The joint venture will establish the first production facility for polysilicon on the Arabian Peninsula. Partners are the [...]

Technology and equipment to produce high-purity silicon
Growing potential for solar plants on the Arabian Peninsula

centrotherm photovoltaics AG has recently signed an agreement with Qatar Solar Technologies (QST) to construct a silicon factory with a planned annual production capacity of 3,600 tons. This is the first polysilicon production facility on the Arabian Peninsula. [...]

Revenue up 35.9 percent from EUR 374.7 million to EUR 509.1 million
Slight increase in EBITDA — EBIT affected by one-off items
Promising start to new reporting year
Further revenue growth to between EUR 550 million and EUR 580 million budgeted for 2010

centrotherm photovoltaics AG remains on its growth path, and achieved revenue of EUR [...]

Module area of 1.5 m² in mass production
Group order book at around EUR 900 million
Orders worth more than EUR 400 million signed in Q4

centrotherm photovoltaics AG is consistently pursuing its development aims in its Thin Film division: the first CIGS (copper indium gallium selenide) thin film modules have been produced on a [...]

Mono: New back side achieves best values of 18.6 percent
Values significantly exceed the current industrial average

centrotherm photovoltaics AG is reporting an additional milestone achievement of its solar cell division. Once again documenting the strong performance of its in-house research and development, average efficiencies of 17.1 percent have now been achieved on high-quality, multi-crystalline [...]

centrotherm photovoltaics raises revenue and earnings in the first nine months of 2009 and confirms full-year guidance

Revenue up by 58.1 percent to EUR 374.7 million
EBITDA leaps 62.3 percent to EUR 50.7 million
EBIT before purchase price allocations rises 55.3 percent to EUR 47.2 million
Solid order book level at EUR 922.4 million

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The silicon division of centrotherm photovoltaics AG has just marked up an additional success: the company’s one hundred percent subsidiary, centrotherm SiTec GmbH, has put a plant into operation to manufacture polysilicon at its customer Shaanxi Tianhong Silicon Industrial Corporation at Xian City in China. centrotherm SiTec, in which centrotherm photovoltaics has bundled its silicon [...]

centrotherm photovoltaics achieves strong revenue growth in the first half of 2009

Revenue up from EUR 140.1 million to EUR 264.1 million
EBIT (before purchase price allocations) boosted from EUR 18.4 million to EUR 33.6 million
Growth forecast for 2009 full year confirmed

centrotherm photovoltaics AG set new records in terms of revenue, orders on hand [...]

Company Profile centrotherm photovoltaics AG, which is based at Blaubeuren, is one of the world’s leading technology and service-providers for the manufacturing of solar cells and solar silicon. The broad product spectrum comprises key equipment and turnkey production lines for crystalline and thin-film solar cells. The product range [...]

 
Blaubeuren, March 3, 2009 – centrotherm photovoltaics AG has achieved a further milestone in silicon production and confirms the performance capacity of its silicon reactors with "First Silicon Out". At the production site of Asia Silicon (Qinghai) Co., Ltd. the company has successfully started its first poly silicon production equipment.
Asia Silicon´s first production phase [...]