LDK Solar, a China-based vertically integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) products, has announced that the city government of Hohhot, the capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, held a groundbreaking ceremony on November 1, 2011 for a 30,000MT per annum polysilicon manufacturing facility in its Jinsan Development Zone. The facility is part of a plan to establish a renewable energy manufacturing hub in the autonomous region. Invited by the city government of Hohhot, the facility will be built by LDK Silicon & Chemical Technology, a subsidiary of LDK Solar that holds and operates LDK Solar's silicon materials business.

Currently, LDK Silicon has a total polysilicon production capacity of 17,000MT per annum, combining both Mahong and Xiacun polysilicon plants in Xinyu, Jiangxi Province of China. With the completion of its ongoing debottlenecking and hydrochlorination projects in both the Mahong and Xiacun plants, as well as the "Line B" project in the Xiacun plant, the company expects to reach a total polysilicon production capacity of 25,000MT per annum in mid-2012. With the anticipated production of this new facility, LDK Silicon expects to have a total polysilicon production capacity of 55,000MT per annum by end of 2013.