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Slurry Supply Running Stably, Wafer Production Unaffected

All slurry recovery plants are currently running stably after last week's fire

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

On Feb. 1, 2010, SiC-Processing AS experienced a fire in one of its two slurry plants at the Herøya industrial complex. The fire was caused by very fine silicon particles in one of the filter presses and was extinguished relatively quickly. A similar plant in Glomfjord was also stopped to seek for the root cause of the fire. Both plants at Herøya and in Glomfjord operate exclusively as on-site plants for the slurry recovery for REC Wafer in Norway. During the second half of last week and over...

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