DC Chemical Opens Polysilicon Plant in Korea

DC Chemical (Seoul), which changed its name to OCI Company on April 1, 2009, says it has opened the company’s second polysilicon plant at Gunsan, North Jeolla province, Korea. The new plant has a production capacity of 10,000 m.t./year, making OCI the second largest producer of polysilicon in the world, after Hemlock Semiconductor (Hemlock, MI), OCI says. OCI invested a total of won1.01 trillion ($863 million) in the Gunsan complex and the company now has a total production capacity of 16,500 m.t./year of polysilicon. “Our No. 2 polysilicon plant has...

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