Reason for Insider buying ..SAMSUNG 200 billion Joint venture Investment with MEMC by 2013
Samsung Fine Chemicals Co. agreed with MEMC Electronic Materials Inc., a U.S.-based maker of silicon wafers, to set up an equally owned venture for a polysilicon plant in South Korea.
The two companies will build the facility on an existing Samsung Fine Chemicals property in Ulsan, according to an e- mailed statement issued jointly.
The plant, which is expected to start operating in 2013, will have an initial capacity of 10,000 metric tons annually, according to the statement. The cost of the facility wasn’t disclosed.
Samsung Fine Chemicals will invest about 200 billion won ($179 million) in the venture, it said today in a separate regulatory filing.
