Tag Archives: Arthur Hsu

Taiwanese Manufacturers Tread Carefully When Expanding PV Module Capacity

published 2014 年 06 月 20 日 9:44 | editor rheatsao | category Price Trend

Recently, Taiwanese cell manufacturers’ capacity utilization has dropped because of the countervailing duty (CVD) and anti-dumping duty (AD) issues. However, it is rumored that some makers plan to expand their module capacit... more

Utilization Rates to Drop by the End of June, Long-Term Demand may Increase After Anti-Dumping Preliminary Verdict Announcements

published 2014 年 06 月 13 日 11:53 | editor rheatsao | category Price Trend

Impacted by the surprising initial verdict on unfair subsidies for Chinese solar panels announced by the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), PV manufacturers in both China and Taiwan are now on their toes anticipating the prelimina... more

US to Impose High Tariffs on Chinese PV Products, Taiwanese Manufacturers May Benefit

published 2014 年 06 月 06 日 9:13 | editor rheatsao | category Price Trend

The U.S. Department of Commerce announced to impose countervailing duties (CVD) on certain Chinese PV cells and modules, hitting Trina Solar with rate of 18.56%, Wuxi Suntech with 35.21% and all others with 26.89%. EnergyTrend for... more

PV Manufacturers Focus on Strategy Deployment as Downstream Market Demand Continues to Increase

published 2014 年 05 月 30 日 18:16 | editor rheatsao | category Price Trend

Demand in the China’s Distributed PV market continues to increase, which caused manufacturers to come up with solutions in response to the trend. From the 8th SNEC Exhibition, which ended last week, we can see that PV servic... more

Australian Government Announces Anti-Dumping Investigation towards Chinese Module Imports

published 2014 年 05 月 15 日 18:04 | editor rheatsao | category Analysis

Australia’s anti-dumping commission announced on May 14th that they will conduct an anti-dumping investigation on finished and semi-finished Chinese PV module imports. The commission will be investigating whether there are d... more

Stronger Market Demand May Sustain PV Silicon Wafer’s Prices in 2Q

published 2014 年 05 月 15 日 18:00 | editor rheatsao | category Price Trend

Market demands to PV silicon wafers may remain stable as many manufacturers have reported growing monthly revenues. Meanwhile, demands also increased because of the postponement of US DoC’s initial verdict for anti-dumping d... more

Wacker Benefits From EU-China Polysilicon Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Issues

published 2014 年 05 月 08 日 17:23 | editor rheatsao | category Price Trend

The Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced on April 30, 2014, that they will impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidy taxes on European solar-grade polysilicon imports. Since China has signed a price agreement with Germany-based Wacke... more

Silicon Thin-Film Market Share to Fall in the Short Run with DuPont Thin-Film Production Shutdown

published 2014 年 05 月 02 日 18:57 | editor rheatsao | category Price Trend

DuPont announced the termination of their silicon thin-film operations by the end of 2014 with gradual shut down the silicon thin-film production lines at their subsidiary company. Silicon thin-film market share is likely to keep ... more

Slow Stock Clearance Rate Impacts PV Price Trend

published 2014 年 04 月 25 日 18:11 | editor rheatsao | category Price Trend

PV stock clearance is nearly ending. Industry demands continued to increase in April and May this year, but orders for June 2014 remain uncertain. Thus, the spot market is still observing supply and demand changes in 2Q14. Meanwhi... more

PV Mono-Si Cell Demand May Increase Due to Bridged Price Gaps

published 2014 年 04 月 17 日 17:35 | editor rheatsao | category Price Trend

Impacted by recent market demand changes and narrowing price gaps, mono-si cell demand may increase in 2Q14, analyzed EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce. In regards to spot market, there is limited room for further pri... more

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