List of silicon producers

A list of silicon producers involves several very different stages of production. Production starts at silicon metal, which is the material used to gain high purity silicon. High purity silicon - coming in different grajdes of purity - will be used for growing silicon ingots, which will be sliced to wafers in a process called wafering. Compositionally pure polycrystalline silicon wafers are useful for photovoltaics), dislocation-free and extremely flat single-crystal silicon wafers are required in the manufacture of computer chips).

Silicon Metal Producers

• Elkem (Orkla Group)
• Globe Specialty Metals
• SIMCALA
• JFE Steel
• Renewable Energy Corporation (REC)
• Nitol Solar
• Rusal

High Purity Silicon

• Renewable Energy Corporation (REC)
• Wacker Chemie AG

Silicon Wafer manufacturers

This is a partial list of major producers of wafers (made of high purity Silicon, mono- or polycrystalline):

• Wacker Chemie AG
• Applied Materials
• MEMC Electronic Materials
• Zhejiang DC Chemical
• LDK Solar
• Renewable Energy Corporation
• Renesola
• Timminco

See also

• List of photovoltaics companies