Silicio
• Energy • Industry • South-East European INDUSTRIAL Мarket - issue 2/2015
Silicio is a Greek company specialized in the production of polycrystalline silicon wafers, PV cells and PV modules. The company was founded in 2005, and in spring 2009 its Patras, Greece plant started production, just 11 months following foundation.
Silicio is a group of companies that has successfully been active in all sectors of the renewable energy sources since 1997, having foreseen the rapid growth of the PV industry due to the constantly increasing share of the solar energy in the global energy balance and favorable feed-in tariffs, has built a state of the art automated facility, for the production of polycrystalline silicon wafers, PV cells and PV modules. Silicio is located in the Industrial Area of Patras, the 3rd largest Greek city and the main Greek export port to Western Europe.
Silicio has not only invested in infrastructure, but also in its personnel, which meets the highest standards and which is continuously and extensively trained on location and abroad in order to achieve the company’s high quality and productivity goals. Concerning environmental protection, Silicio has significantly invested in the most advanced waste management technology and recycles to the upmost possible degree all materials and water.