LDK Solar to Applied Materials issued 220 million U.S. dollars of orders

LDK Solar to Applied Materials has issued 220 million U.S. dollars of orders, orders to precision wafer processing system, to expand production into the next step.

The equipment will be early 2009 plans to LDK Solar Xinyu the factory, which will significantly higher than the LDK Solar previously announced in the 2010 expansion of solar wafer production capacity to 3.2 GW goal.

Source: SEMI Aug. 22, 2008