Legal Opinion

Hemlock Semiconductor Operations, LLC v. SolarWorld Industries Sachsen GmbH

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided August 16, 2017No. 16-2181PublishedCited by 42 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

RONALD LEE GILMAN, Circuit Judge.

Hemlock Semiconductor Operations, LLC (Hemlock) and SolarWorld Industries Sachsen GmbH (Sachsen) are both involved in manufacturing components of solar-power products. They entered into a series of long-term supply agreements (LTAs), by which Hemlock in Michigan would supply Sachsen in Germany with set quantities of polycrystalline silicon (polysi-licon) at fixed prices between the years 2006 and 2019. The market price of polysi-licon was initially well above the LTA price, but the market price plummeted several years later after the Chinese government…

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