Green Energy Technology Inc (綠能科技), the nation’s biggest solar wafer maker, yesterday said its revenues grew 2.8 percent to NT$1.51 billion (US$52 million) last month from NT$1.47 billion in July, marking its best performance in four months.
However, the number was still down 1.73 percent year-on-year from NT$1.53 billion, according to the company’s e-mailed statement.
With a quarterly loss of NT$233 million in the second quarter, Green Energy joined all other local solar companies in reporting losses in the quarter, prompting it on Monday to slash its earnings forecast for this year to a pre-tax loss of NT$610 million, from a pre-tax income of NT$3.55 billion it estimated earlier.
The company attributed the earnings revision to steep price declines amid frozen demand and excessive inventories in the supply chain.
To improve profitability, it vowed to cut operating expenses, save more on costs and install more equipment to produce high-quality wafers.
Taipei-based market researcher TrendForce Corp (集邦科技) expected the price of multi-silicon wafers to fall further this quarter to below US$2 per piece. Prices fell 1.95 percent this week from last week, as customers demanded price cuts to help weather the industrial slump, TrendForce said.
The share price of Green Energy fell for the third straight session since Monday, ending 0.69 percent lower at NT$57.7 yesterday.
Taiwan Transport and Storage Corp (TTS, 台灣通運倉儲) yesterday unveiled its first electric tractor unit — manufactured by Volvo Trucks — in a ceremony in Taipei, and said the unit would soon be used to transport cement produced by Taiwan Cement Corp (TCC, 台灣水泥). Both TTS and TCC belong to TCC International Holdings Ltd (台泥國際集團). With the electric tractor unit, the Taipei-based cement firm would become the first in Taiwan to use electric vehicles to transport construction materials. TTS chairman Koo Kung-yi (辜公怡), Volvo Trucks vice president of sales and marketing Johan Selven, TCC president Roman Cheng (程耀輝) and Taikoo Motors Group
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