Figure 24: Global Manufacturing Capacity: Polysilicon (Tons)
800 tons
5.1.3: By the Numbers: The World’s Leading Solar Manufacturers Figure 28 below shows the ten largest global polysilicon manufacturers, based on 2015 production. Five of them manufacture solely or largely in China. Two—Hemlock Semiconductor and REC—are based in the United States. Two— OCI and Hankook—are based in South Korea. And one, Wacker Chemie, is based in Germany. Half of all polysilicon made in the world is made in China, up from virtually zero in 2008, the result largely of tariffs imposed by China on imports by Chinabased solar-wafer manufacturers of polysilicon made in the United States.
Source: Bloomberg New Energy Finance Note: Global polysilicon production in 2015 totaled 348,000 tons.XXXXX I came up with 800 per chart 24:
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Figure 31: Solar Manufacturers in China’s Yangtze River Delta
As shown by a comparison of Figure 31 above with Table 11 below, five of the world’s six largest solarmodule manufacturers have their headquarters in the Yangtze River Delta. They are: Jinko, Trina, JA, Canadian Solar, and GCL. The other company among the world’s sixth-largest producers of solar modules, Hanwha Q Cells, also has its major module manufacturing located
