PHOTON's 10th Solar Silicon Conference

STRATEGIES FOR SUPPLYING AND SOURCING THE RIGHT SILICON PRODUCTS

Conference outline:

As prices for silicon have plunged dramatically in the last few months, the situation for suppliers and buyers has fundamentally changed – and many new questions need to be answered from both sides, especially regarding long-term contracts versus spot-market sales, internal silicon production versus external procurement, and downstream integration into the project business for silicon makers.

The 10th edition of the world’s leading solar silicon forum will once again have leading players discuss everything about silicon feedstock.

Topics covered:

• Demand, supply, costs and prices: Implications of the current oversupply situation for silicon players and the solar sector as a whole.
• Quality discussion: What quality of silicon is needed for different wafer/cell products?
• Business strategies: How leading silicon makers address the market – from focussing solely on silicon to full downstream integration.
• Start-ups: New ideas for making solar silicon.  
• Equipment & processes: The latest technology updates for silicon production.
• Executive panel discussion.

Target group:

PHOTON’s Solar Silicon Conference is the annual global platform for discussion on the latest news about silicon feedstock for the PV industry. It addresses executives, technologists, and sales and marketing experts from silicon suppliers and silicon users, such as ingot, wafer and cell manufacturers.

Andel's Hotel Berlin
Landsberger Allee 106
10369 Berlin
Germany

March 26, 2012

Registration: 8 am, start: 9 am,
End: approx. 6 pm

Ticket: € 740
(€ 640 for PHOTON and International and PHOTON Profi subscribers)

Discounts:

10% with ticket purchase before December 31, 2011

5% with ticket purchase before March 5, 2012

€ 100 when buying tickets for two or more PHOTON Europe conferences

PROGRAM

TIME	INVITED SPEAKER, ORGANIZATION TOPIC
9:00 - 9:10	CONFERENCE OPENING   Chairpersons:   Anne Kreutzmann, PHOTON Europe, Germany
9:10 - 10:45	FUNDAMENTALS   Co-chairperson: Albrecht Mozer, Amocon, Germany    Martin Meyers, PHOTON Consulting, USA "(Over-)supply and demand – challenges for silicon manufacturers"   Henning Wicht, IHS iSuppli, Germany "Price development for various grades of silicon"   Louis Parous, Centrotherm, Germany  "Integration of mg-silicon and polysilicon - a production cost game changer?"
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 - 13:00	SILICON PRODUCERS    Co-chairperson: Albrecht Mozer, Amocon, Germany   Gøran Bye, LDK, China "Positioning for the current developments of the polysilicon industry"   Theresa Jester, Silicor Materials, USA   Bjørn Sandberg, Elkem Solar, Norway "High performance solar cells based on low cost solar silicon with low carbon footprint"   Johann Harter, Activ Solar, Austria "Building a Market for Poly Si"
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 16:00	EQUIPMENT FOR SILICON PRODUCTION     Co-chairperson: Jan Vedde, SiCon, Denmark   Dave Keck, GT, USA "Lowering costs to produce polycrystalline silicon"   Peter Fath, Centrotherm, Germany "Why investing in poly still makes sense"   Guido Fragiacomo, Garbo, Italy "Recycling silicon waste from diamond-wire wafering"   Ed Jean, MEI, USA "An advanced drying technique for silicon"
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00	SILICON START-UPS – NEW IDEAS FOR SILICON PRODUCTION       Co-chairperson: Jan Vedde, SiCon, Denmark   Antonio Navarro, Siliken, Spain  "First results on FBR production toward $10 per kg"     Timon Kabelac, JPM Silicon, Germany "High-quality silicon metal from a microwave furnace"   Øystein Øyehaug, Clean Silicon, Norway "CleanSi – an affordable and simple silicon process"
18:00 - 18:30	PANEL DISCUSSION
	Conference program - download here