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DC Chemical wins $749 mln China polysilicon order

Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:28am EDT

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SEOUL, Aug 29 (Reuters) - South Korea's DC Chemical Co (010060.KS) said on Friday that it had secured a polysilicon order worth 813.3 billion won ($748.6 million) from China's Wuxi Suntech Power Co Ltd.

The contract period is between 2010 and the end of 2016, DC Chemical said in a disclosure to the Korea Exchange.

DC Chemical earlier on Friday announced a 200 billion won Japanese order for polysilicon, a material which is used for computer chips and converting sunlight into electricity inside solar cells.

($1=1086.4 Won)

(Reporting by Kim Yeon-hee; Editing by Keiron Henderson)



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