Florham Park, New Jersey, United States
LXE, a leader in Trichlorosilane (TCS) technologies for the solar industry since its founding in July 2007, announced that it has been contracted to provide technology package to annually manufacture 108,000 metric tons of Trichlorosilane to produce 18,000 metric tons of Polysilicon per year. Further, it has expanded its senior technical management with the hiring of four industry veterans to serve LXE's initial clients and to handle future growth.
Joining the LXE team are:
Tom Barker, Sr. Director, has over 35 years of experience in Chlorosilane and Polysilicon manufacturing with Union Carbide at their Keasbey, Washougal, Sistersville and Kingman facilities, Great Western Silicon and Phoenix Research. He served as TCS chemist/engineer at two new Polysilicon plants, and provided technical support for electronic grade TCS to supply 90% of the market in the USA.
Earl Pataky, Sr. Manager, has over 25 years of Chlorosilane experience at Dow Corning where he supervised a team of technicians, engineers and operators in TCS manufacturing operations at several facilities including US (Midland, MI), UK (Berry, South Wales) and Brazil.
Joe Garcia, Sr. Manager, has over 20 years of TCS experience at Union Carbide/ASiMi and Renewable Energy Corp., where he was a key member for the startup of a new poly plant, FBRs and distillation processes at the Moses Lake and Butte facilities.
Kevin Corkwell, Sr. Manager, has over 30 years of experience managing high purity chlorosilanes and silanes at Union Carbide. He served as a key contributor on Dow Chemical's national Six Sigma Team; achieving a 35% reduction in reactor residual Butyl Acrylate (monomer) levels, which led to PPG Industry's Preferred Vendor Supplier Award. Corkwell introduced external gas chromatograph calibration techniques to increase data precision, and he recommended and assisted in implementing national round robin product analysis trials.
"This excellent technical team strengthened our capacity to design the TCS processes, prepare the supervisory operation procedures and more importantly, develop our dedicated commissioning/startup service for our clients," stated Dr. George Xiao, Chairman & CEO of LXE Corp. "LXE upholds an unwavering focus to ensure our clients' successful startup of TCS plants. Quality, focus and professionalism are the key attributes of our business. With four key industry veterans with a combined experience of greater than 110 years of design, startup and operations, LXE is well positioned to increase its offerings and develop new initiatives."
About LXE
LXE, a Nevada corporation, is one of the fastest growing providers of Trichlorosilane (TCS) technologies to the solar industry. Founded in July 2007 by Dr. George Xiao, LXE, in the first six months, secured two contracts to provide the technology to manufacture 108,000 metric tons per year of Trichlorosilane to produce 18,000 metric tons of Polysilicon annually. LXE's TCS technical team are experts in TCS process design, TCS plant commissioning & startup, Polysilicon plant integration and foundational work. For general information please contact LXE at info@lxecorp.com Prospective partners contact LXE at bd@lxecorp.com Media contact Rick Keating at rkeating@keatingco.com.
Source: Business Wire (Business Wire India)