With a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Keller School of Management in Phoenix, Arizona, Steve Verschoor co-founded GTSP Global, Inc., a Boise, Idaho-based solar panel parts manufacturing company, where he oversees the company’s sales team. As the company’s head of sales, Steve Verschoor has negotiated and secured numerous contracts with clients worldwide, including GCL Solar in China, OCI Polysilicon in South Korea and VRV Polysilicon in Italy.
The raw material for manufacturing pure silicon is quartzite, a fine to medium grain rock made up entirely of pure quartz sand. Quartzite is composed mostly of quartz, which has the greatest percentage of pure silica of any known mineral (between 90 and 99 percent).
Raw polycrystalline silicon, often known as polysilicon, is high-purity silicon used in the solar photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing sector. It is now the most common feedstock material used in the manufacturing of solar cells. Large rods of polysilicon are often split into pieces or chips of various sizes before forming multi-crystalline ingots. After that, the ingot materials are cut into silicon wafers used to make solar cells.
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