Approximately 76% of silver demand in the solar PV industry was used last year in frontside pastes, while the remaining 24% was used in backside pastes. Comoditization, however, is having detrimental effects on producers' margins.Overall, global industrial demand for silver grew around 4%, from 5,768 million ounces in 2016, to 599 million last year, according to the World Silver Survey 2018, produced by the GFMS Team at Thomson Reuters on behalf of the Silver Institute. Last year's performance, according to the survey, was mainly due to the record growth of the PV industry, which pushed demand ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...