© photon.pictures.com Empire-maker?: REC president Alf Bjorseth (right), inspecting silicon ingot production in Glomfjord, Norway, hopes to soon do the same at the ASiMI polysilicon manufacturing plant in Montana, where REC wants to buy up to a 75-percent share.

William P. Hirshman, Michael Schmela 
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