The past year has seen several countries raised as possible sites for brand new polysilicon factories, namely the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Australia (in Queensland). All with the agenda behind it to expand the supply for wafer-cell-module manufacturers wanting to prove beyond doubt their lack of involvement in Uyghur forced labor in addition to dodging anti-Chinese trade measures in general. Now it’s looking like the first (and perhaps only) will be a 100,000-ton, $1.35 billion facility in Oman, which has begun construction in the Sohar Freezone according to the Muscat Daily, being built by United Solar Polysilicon (FZC) SPC, an Omani company which is presumably working hand in glove with one of the ten biggest Chinese polysilicon manufacturers. There is…