HPQ Silicon Inc V.HPQ

Alternate Symbol(s): HPQFF

HPQ Silicon Inc. (HPQ) is a Canada-based technology company specializing in green engineering of silica and silicon-based materials. The Company is engaged in developing, with the support of technology partners PyroGenesis Canada Inc. (PyroGenesis) and Novacium SAS, new green processes to make the critical materials needed to reach net zero emissions. Its activities are centered around the three pillars: becoming a green low-cost (Capex and Opex) manufacturer of Fumed Silica using the Fumed Silica Reactor, a proprietary technology owned by HPQ being developed for HPQ by PyroGenesis; becoming a producer of silicon-based anode materials for battery applications with the assistance of Novacium SAS, and Novacium SAS is engaged in developing a low carbon, chemical base on demand and high-pressure autonomous hydrogen production system. The Company operates in a single operating segment, segment, being the sector of the transformation of quartz into silicon materials and derivative products.

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Post by ratherbegolfinon Feb 26, 2017 3:20pm

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Solar boom=possible shortage of high purity quartz

Our high purity quartz properties are going to become a highly valued commodity in the future and is going to play a very important role in HPQ dominating the silicon market.

Here is an article that I found:
A new Dilemma?

High purity quartz is a highly specialized and, in many ways, highly secretive market. It refers to material of ultra high purity – generally higher than 99.99% SiO₂ with impurities of less than 50 ppm. The highest purity product based on natural quartz that is currently available has a purity of 99.9992% with boron as low as 40 ppb. The term, high purity, is also used to refer to some quartz fillers used in the semiconductor industry that have a lower SiO₂ content of about 99.8%.

Quartz fillers are used to make epoxy moulding compounds (EMC), while high purity quartz sand is used in the production of semiconductor and solar grade crucibles, ingots, lamp tubing, specialized lighting glass and wafer fabrication. US-based Unimin Corp. dominates the global high purity quartz sand market, while exports of lump quartzare made from India and Sri Lanka, mainly to South Korea and Japan, where the materials are further processed into filler products.

Notwithstanding the secrecy that surrounds the high purity quartz industry the size of the worldwide market is estimated at 50,000 tpa for the 99.99% plus purity material. The fact that at least four times the raw material has to be mined and processed to produce solar silicon an estimated demand of about 100,000-150,000 tpa should be available within the near future to satisfy at least 25% of solar silicon production giving rise to a notable increase in requests for high purity quartz resources.

Now if you look at the link below you will see another huge advantage we will have over the silicon market market due to the fact we will have our own feedstock but we will also be using alot less material to produce the same product. Now if we can produce solar grade silicon out of low grade quartz it will be as Bernard put it "GAME OVER".