An employee works at a solar panel production facility in Baotou, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, in May. LI ZHIPENG/XINHUA Chinese solar companies are turning their attention to emerging markets in Indonesia and the Middle East as the United States intensifies trade restrictions on imported photovoltaic products from various regions, analysts said. In early December, the US made a preliminary decision …
Taiwan's GlobalWafers Co Ltd will spend $5 billion on a new plant in Texas to make silicon wafers used in semiconductors, switching to the United States after a failed European investment. The company said late on Monday the new plant, manufacturing 300-millimetre silicon wafers, would start being built later this year and generate as many as 1,500 jobs in Sherman, …