23 March 2015
DETAILS
was awarded a contract by
Shaanxi Non-Ferrous Tian Hong REC Silicon Materials Co., Ltd., (TianREC)
to provide detailed design services and technical support
for its new polysilicon plant
to be located in Yulin, Shaanxi Province, China.
Fluor will book the contract
for an undisclosed value in the first quarter of 2015.
The new plant, which will have
an anticipated total investment of more than $1 billion,
will use REC Silicon's next generation
fluidized bed reactor technology.
It is expected to have a capacity to produce
* 18,000 metric tons of granular polysilicon,
* an additional 1,000 metric tons of Siemens polysilicon and
* 500 metric tons of silane gas loading.
The award of the detailed design and
technical support contract
follows Fluor’s successful completion of
the front-end engineering and design package project,
and it builds upon the successful completion of
several previous projects for REC Silicon.
Fluor’s Shanghai office will execute the project
with support from
Fluor’s offices in Aliso Viejo, Calif. and New Delhi.
The Shanghai office has successfully completed
other recent polysilicon projects in China.
TianREC is a joint venture between
Shaanxi Non-Ferrous Tian Hong New Energy Co., Ltd., and
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