Hi Paul,

Yes, I can confirm that Apollon shares the same enthusiasm as we do about the partnerships. 

The reason why they do not have a big footprint on the web is simple and can be found in our press release.

Apollon is a private French company that has become one of the world’s leaders in renewable energies, and the development of processes to make high purity silicon metal for photovoltaic conversion used in high performance solar cells.

As a private company, their marketing needs and aims are not the same as ours.  Also, they work a lot with French Governmental programs, and the nature of these programs often requires confidentiality.

The key point is that they are known in the industry, and so is their success and they bring a lot to us.

From our press release:

For nearly 20 years Apollon has invested time and money in Solar Silicon, and has become one of the world leaders in the development of processes to make solar grade silicon metal refined metallurgically “SoG Si UMG” that can generate high performance Solar Cells”.  Apollon’s achievements include:

·       Being the first to manufacture entirely monocrystalline Czochralski (“Cz”) ingots made with 100% “SoG Si UMG”;

·     In previous collaboration with solar cell partners, Apollon obtained conversion efficiencies of over 20% with monocrystalline ingots;

·       Has obtained, with the ANU (Australian National University) and independently confirmed by Fraunhofer ISE, a world record conversion efficiency of 21.1% with monocrystalline ingots, for a solar cell made with “SoG Si UMG”.

PyroGenesis is also very enthusiast about our partnership with Apollon as can be seen from their release on the subject. 

One last point, the reason why we are not detailing the terms of the transactions is that as a private company Apollon as requested that we keep the terms confidential.

Regards,

Bernard Tourillon

CEO