US company Fluor enables LDK Solar’s plant to reach production in 20 months

18 September 2009

Fluor Corporation has helped China’s LDK Solar’s polysilicon plant in Xinyu City, China, to its first successful production run in just 20 months, according to the Texas-based company. As the engineering, procurement and construction management contractor, Fluor helped bring the facility from groundbreaking to first production within this period.

LDK Solar initiated production ramp-up of operations for its first 5,000 metric-tonne train of its eventual 15,000MT (annualised capacity) polysilicon plant in Xinyu earlier this month.

‘This is an amazing project milestone due to the incredible size of the facility and the unprecedented speed of the construction schedule to meet first production,’ said Peter Oosterveer, president of Fluor’s Energy & Chemicals Group. ‘With the numerous unique design and construction challenges of this megaproject and the accelerated timetable we achieved together with LDK Solar, this is truly an unprecedented accomplishment.’

Nick Sarno, LDK Solar’s senior vice president of manufacturing and polysilicon plant project manager, confirmed Oosterveer’s insights. ‘The project team, skilfully led by Fluor, has done an incredible job helping to make the impossible possible,’ Sarno said. ‘In just 20 months, we have achieved what many said to be impossible. We literally moved mountains so that we could build the largest polysilicon plant in the world.’

LDK Solar is a manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, which are the principal raw material used to produce solar cells. LDK Solar sells multicrystalline wafers globally to manufacturers of photovoltaic products, including solar cells and solar modules.

Fluor Corporation designs, builds and maintains energy projects around the world. The FORTUNE 200 conglomerate had a revenue of $22.3bn in 2008.

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