The new facility will have a capacity to supply two million two-inch equivalent pieces of sapphire wafers per year.
LDK Solar chairman and CEO Xiaofeng Peng said the new investment in manufacturing sapphire wafers has a great synergy with the company’s crystallization and wafer engineering and manufacturing expertise.
Last week, the company announced the addition of one new solar cell manufacturing site in Hefei City of China’s Anhui Province.
LDK Solar manufactures polysilicon, mono and multicrystalline ingots, wafers, modules and cells.
The company is also engaged in project development activities in selected segments of the solar PV market.
