SolarWorld AG / Miscellaneous 13.02.2008 Release of a Corporate-announcement, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Silicon secured by another long-term-contract Deutsche Solar AG, a subsidiary of SolarWorld AG, is consistently expanding its wafer business with the international solar cell industry. The company has concluded new long-term contracts for the supply of solar silicon wafers worth 500 million EUR with customers from Asia and Europe. Thus, the order books of the worldwide leader in crystalline solar silicon wafers amount to more than 5.5 billion EUR until the year 2018. The export share adds up to 90 per cent. At the same time Deutsche Solar AG has concluded a contract with the solar silicon producer DC Chemical Co. Ltd. (DCC) for the supply of solar silicon running to a volume of 600 MW that contributes to securing the raw material supply for wafer production in the long term. At the production site in Freiberg/Saxony the group is also backing its continuous expansion of wafer production in technological terms by strengthening the cooperation with the Technical University and Mining Academy of Freiberg. The SolarWorld Group increased the SolarWorld Foundation Fund for the promotion of research and teaching established in the year 2006 by a five digit amount in order to support selected projects in the chemistry and physics faculties. The high quality solar silicon wafers gossamer thin discs made of high purity silicon are the input material for the production of solar cells which in turn are turned into solar modules. About SolarWorld AG: The SolarWorld AG group of companies (ISIN: DE0005108401) is a world leader in high quality solar power technology. The company is involved at all levels of the solar value chain and combines all activities of the solar industry from silicon as the raw material to turn-key solar power system. SolarWorld AG is represented in all the worlds solar growth markets. The group is exclusively dedicated to its core business of photovoltaic power generation operating production facilities in Germany and the USA. They in turn supply the SolarWorld AG sales offices in Germany, Spain, USA, South Africa and Singapore. In South Korea SolarWorld AG is currently building up a solar module production facility in order to be able to serve the growing demand in Asia on the spot in the future. The central element of the business in addition to the sale of turn-key solar systems and solar modules to the trade is the distribution of solar silicon wafers to the international solar cell industry. Apart from grid-coupled (on-grid) products the SolarWorld Group also sells off-grid solar power solutions that make an important contribution to the sustainable economic development of threshold and developing countries. Under the name Solar2World the group has pooled its ethical commitment to solar power especially in developing countries. SolarWorld AG employs more than 2,000 people worldwide. At the stock market the company is listed among others in the technology index TecDAX, in the ÖkoDAX, in the Dow Jones STOXX 600, in the international MSCI index as well as in the sustainability indices DAXglobal Alternative Energy and NAI. Contact: SolarWorld AG Investor Relations / Marketing Communications, Tel.-No.: +49 228 55920 -470; Fax-No.: +49 228 55920-9470, E-mail: placement@solarworld.de Internet: www.solarworld.de DGAP 13.02.2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Issuer: SolarWorld AGKurt-Schumacher-Straße 12-14 53113 Bonn Deutschland Phone: +49 (0)228 - 559 20 470 Fax: +49 (0)228 - 559 20 99 E-mail: placement@solarworld.de Internet: www.solarworld.de ISIN: DE0005108401 WKN: 510840 Indices: TecDAX Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard), Düsseldorf; Freiverkehr in Berlin, München, Hamburg, Stuttgart; Terminbörse EUREX End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
DGAP-News: SolarWorld AG sells additional solar wafers worth 500 Mio. Euro
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