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 Ceradyne Opens First Solar Energy Ceramic-Related Factory in Tianjin, China
Ceradyne Tianjin Technical Ceramics opened a new 98,000 square foot factory on June 20, 2007 in Tianjin, China. This newly constructed factory will be used to produce high purity ceramic crucibles for forming large polysilicon ingots used in the manufacture of photovoltaic silicon solar cells.
The facility, located on Ceradyne's five-acre plot in Tianjin's Tanggu National Marine High Tech Development Zone, will supply the exact components to its Chinese photovoltaic solar cell customer base that are currently produced by Ceradyne Thermo Materials in Atlanta, Georgia where the technology was developed. The Ceradyne Tianjin facility will be run by Ceradyne Chinese executives and engineers who have been trained by Ceradyne Thermo Materials' management.
Bruce Lockhart, Ceradyne Vice President responsible for the Company's solar energy efforts, commented: "This is a very exciting event for Ceradyne and particularly for Ceradyne Thermo Materials. We established a dedicated facility in Atlanta only three years ago to develop and manufacture these high technology ceramic crucibles for solar cell fabricators. The new, much larger Tianjin plant replicates the Atlanta plant to meet our Chinese customer requirements."
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