Cheap Imports of Solar Panels Impact on the Domestic Market

The 2011 global PV market is ups and downs, and the polycrystalline silicon

Solar panels market price is way down, the unit price reduces from the beginning of $ 80 to $ 30, a decrease of 60%. This is of course the technology level of domestic polysilicon enterprises, cost reduction, capacity release downstream demand reduction, more important reason is polysilicon products market is a global market, foreign enterprises to take advantage of its large-scale, low-cost, low price advantages to attract domestic downstream manufacturers and bundled downstream enterprises avoid risks through long-term contracts and high premiums. The domestic polysilicon solar module manufacturer in terms of the level of technology on the industrial scale, innovation, or financial support, and the government supported efforts, with the big companies in the world, we have a big gap.

Korea-US Vigorously Dumping Solar Panels to China

The view on the domestic market, the domestic polysilicon production is still far less than the demand, but a large number of imported products surged squeeze the domestic market, especially the Korea-US polysilicon manufacturers continue to increase efforts to do dumping of low-priced products to the Chinese market. According to customs statistics, in 2011 China imported 64,600 tons of polysilicon, a year-on-year increase of 36%; imports amounted to $ 3.8 billion, an increase of 42% year-on-year. South Korea surpassed the United States in April 2011 to become China's largest polysilicon wholesale solar panel importing countries, exports accounted for 32.2% of total imports of China's polysilicon. OCI the long unit price of exports were lower than the domestic price in order to compete for the Chinese market, 30,000 to 80,000 RMB / ton, and the spot price is 50,000 to 100,000 RMB / ton cheaper, this is particularly evident impact on China's polysilicon market.

Survival of China's Polysilicon Solar Panels Enterprises

Polysilicon production enterprises in China are nearly forty enterprises. And the annual production capacity is 1000 to 3000 tons, annual production scale of enterprises and even kiloton. Some enterprises put into operation a long time, the technology should be further improved digestion and absorption. 2009 voted to build the production line is relatively high investment costs, high energy consumption of equipment, thus the relatively high cost of the integrated enterprise. The current market price of polysilicon solar panels is priced at $ 30, has been lower than many domestic polysilicon production costs, while the viability of large enterprises in the process of falling commodity prices, the market instead concentrated to the leading enterprises. Large domestic polysilicon companies were forced to cut production, especially since the fourth quarter of last year, domestic enterprises capacity utilization rapid declined, stocks surged, so many companies face greater threats to survival.

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