Stealthy company marks the milestone with an updated corporate presentation.
Q & A with RSI Silicon Founder, President & CEO Steve Amendola
Last week, a Photovoltaic Industry connection brought the latest RSI Silicon news to my attention. Under News and Upcoming Events, the RSI Silicon homepage has:
Production to commence in the Easton facility.
along with a link to the February 2009 corporate presentation.
RSI Silicon claims to be ramping Solar Grade Silicon production now at their Easton plant to 1000 metric ton (MT) annual capacity by late 2009 and scaling to 30000 metric tons
[Easton, Pennsylvania USA]
Not in Solar Grade Silicon production yet?
Before the Thanksgiving Day Holiday, my co-investigator and I took a not so quick field trip to RSI Silicon Products, LLC, located in Forks Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Our goal was to assess RSI Silicon’s progress in commercializing their Solar Grade Silicon production process described in “RSI Silicon: Solar Grade Silicon from Pennsylvania (then Alabama)”.
Given the Environmental disclosure regarding the “installation of two electric arc furnaces and associated air cleaning devices (fabric collectors)” uncovered in
Production is supposed to commence a quarter later in Q3 2008 (about now) as the company remains stealthy. There has been a dearth of news regarding RSI Silicon Products, LLC since RSI Silicon: Solar Grade Silicon from Pennsylvania (then Alabama) explained the RSI Silicon process. In fact, I missed an earlier article by Solarbuzz titled “RSI Silicon Products Nears Completion of Solar Grade Silicon Manufacturing Plant” from January 18, 2008, that has now been removed from their website. Google’s cache snapshot is here for as long as it lasts. Towards the end of the article, Solarbuzz said:
The major equipment items have been delivered to the 178,000 square foot Easton facility
Novel process begins with a Sodium Silicate (Na2SiO3) precursor in solution.
The complete production process patent has been published by WIPO.
RSI Silicon claims Solar Grade Silicon production will start in Q2 2008 with 1000 metric ton annual capacity.
RSI (Reaction Sciences, Inc.) Silicon is commercializing a process for six nines (6N) or 99.9999+% pure solar grade silicon that does not require metallurgical silicon (mg-Si) as in an input. Proven polysilicon and solar grade silicon production processes all share metallurgical silicon as a feedstock including the Siemens, Fluidized Bed Reactor, and upgraded metallurgical processes.
After noticing a recent increase in traffic and interest regarding Easton, Pennsylvania USA, based RSI Silicon, I redoubled my efforts to research and establish a dialog with the
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