Fluor Corp. has been awarded a contract for engineering, procurement and construction management services by LDK Solar Co. Ltd, for a polysilicon facility in Xinyu City, Jiangxi, China. Fluor originally booked the front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for this project in the third quarter of 2007. Fluor booked the remainder of the USD 1 billion project in the first quarter of 2008. Fluor’s scope of work includes full EPCM services using a design-build approach, which also includes the trichlorosilane plant, chemical vapor deposition reactors, converters, and associated utilities, offsites and infrastructure. The new facility will be located adjacent to LDK Solar’s existing solar wafer manufacturing facilities at its Xinyu City headquarters. Fluor’s Greenville S.C.; Manila, Philippines, and Shanghai operations are performing FEED, detailed design and procurement, with the construction management team located in Xinyu City. When the project is completed, it is expected to produce up to 15,000mt per year of polysilicon and 90,000mt per year of trichlorosilane. Construction at the site began in August 2007, with the mechanical completion of the first manufacturing line expected to be 31 December 2008. All three lines are scheduled to be completed by July 2009.
