Xinyu City will bailout LDK Solar
Source: Bloomberg News |
July 18, 2012, Wednesday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
LDK Solar Co, the solar-wafer maker that's reported four straight quarterly losses, will have a portion of its debts paid by the government of Xinyu City in Jiangxi Province where it's based.
The Xinyu authorities will include repayment of LDK's loans from Huarong International Trust Co in the annual fiscal budget, according to a statement on the website of the National People's Congress. The local legislature has approved the plan, the statement showed, without saying how much the city would pay.
The bailout is the first from a Chinese local government to a non-state solar company to pay off debt. The solar industry is grappling with a global supply glut that's curbed prices and trimmed profit margins, hurting the ability of developers to pay off loans.
LDK's long-term unsecured loans from the Huarong Trust totaled US$79.4 million at the end of 2011, LDK said on May 15.
"From a solar-sector point of view, this is clearly negative" because it suggests that consolidation and price recovery will take longer than expected, said Charles Yonts, an analyst at CLSA Ltd in Hong Kong.
Chinese solar-module prices sank to a record 77 US cents a watt as of July 2, tumbling 47 percent from a year earlier, according to data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
LDK, the world's biggest maker of solar wafers after GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd, said in May it may be unable to remain in business if it can't improve access to funds. The company announced a first-quarter net loss of US$185.2 million on June 26.
Its percentage of net debt to equity rose to 600 percent in the period from 406 percent in the prior quarter, resulting in "a meaningful risk for LDK and likely limiting its ability to raise more debt," Nomura Holdings Inc wrote the same day.
The Xinyu authorities will include repayment of LDK's loans from Huarong International Trust Co in the annual fiscal budget, according to a statement on the website of the National People's Congress. The local legislature has approved the plan, the statement showed, without saying how much the city would pay.
The bailout is the first from a Chinese local government to a non-state solar company to pay off debt. The solar industry is grappling with a global supply glut that's curbed prices and trimmed profit margins, hurting the ability of developers to pay off loans.
LDK's long-term unsecured loans from the Huarong Trust totaled US$79.4 million at the end of 2011, LDK said on May 15.
"From a solar-sector point of view, this is clearly negative" because it suggests that consolidation and price recovery will take longer than expected, said Charles Yonts, an analyst at CLSA Ltd in Hong Kong.
Chinese solar-module prices sank to a record 77 US cents a watt as of July 2, tumbling 47 percent from a year earlier, according to data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
LDK, the world's biggest maker of solar wafers after GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd, said in May it may be unable to remain in business if it can't improve access to funds. The company announced a first-quarter net loss of US$185.2 million on June 26.
Its percentage of net debt to equity rose to 600 percent in the period from 406 percent in the prior quarter, resulting in "a meaningful risk for LDK and likely limiting its ability to raise more debt," Nomura Holdings Inc wrote the same day.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 娌狪CP璇侊細娌狪CP澶05050403鍙-1
- |
- 浜掕仈缃戞柊闂讳俊鎭湇鍔¤鍙瘉锛31120180004
- |
- 缃戠粶瑙嗗惉璁稿彲璇侊細0909346
- |
- 骞挎挱鐢佃鑺傜洰鍒朵綔璁稿彲璇侊細娌瓧绗354鍙
- |
- 澧炲肩數淇′笟鍔＄粡钀ヨ鍙瘉锛氭勃B2-20120012
Copyright 漏 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
