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DuPont is to build a new R&D facility in Hong Kong as well as a production facility in Shenzhen, China for current and future materials used for traditional crystalline silicon (c-Si) cell and module markets. The company will also expand into serving the fast-growing amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin-film market. Read more >>

A new joint venture crystalline solar cell manufacturer has been created with the announcement that Munich, Germany, based PV systems manufacturer, Centrosolar Group AG and Munich headquartered, Qimonda AG plan to build and operate a 100MWp facility at Qimonda’s Vila do Conde, Portugal, semiconductor packaging plant. Qimonda is a major semiconductor memory manufacturer. Read more >>

Process piping solutions provider NEHP, Inc. has moved its production facilities to a new 15,000 square-foot building in Williston, Vermont. With cleanrooms of class 1,000 and 10,000 and two demarcated fabrication and production areas in the building, the move also holds the promise of further expansion with permits for the addition of a further 10,000 square feet. Read more >>

Photovoltaic cell and module manufacturer Solsonica, based in Rieti, Italy has selected gas abatement technology from Edwards that will be used for abatement during silicon nitride (SiN) deposition in its polysilicon solar cell manufacturing operations. Solsonica has purchased two ‘ATLAS’ thermal conditioning systems (TCS) for its requirements. Read more >>

XsunX has decided on a location for its new thin-film solar module manufacturing facility. The company is to sublet the facilities of a 90,000 square-foot building in Wood Village east of Portland, Oregon, which was previously used by another technology manufacturer. Read more >>

Odersun AG has broken ground on its second flexible substrate Copper-Indium-diSulphide on copper tape (CISCut) manufacturing plant in Fürstenwalde, Germany. Read more >>

Malibu GmbH & Co. KG in Bielefeld, Germany, a joint venture between energy utility E.ON and Schüco, a buildings systems manufacturer, has signed a long-term contract for over-the-fence supply of ... Read more >>

Perfectenergy International has said that its successful move into a new 67,000 square foot plant in Shanghai, China during 2007 will allow the photovoltaic manufacturer to reach a capacity of 45MW in the second half of its 2008 fiscal year. 

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Signet Solar has committed to building its second large substrate thin film photovoltaic plant in the Sriperembudur Special Economic Zone near Chennai, India. Construction is expected to start later in 2008 on a 300MW facility at an initial estimated cost of $500 million.  Read more >>

Sunovia Energy Technologies and EPIR Technologies have completed Phase 1 of their shared 2,000 sq. ft. cleanroom for the manufacture of cadmium telluride (CdTe)-based solar cells and CdTe and mercury cadmium telluride (HgCdTe) infrared detectors as part of the joint venture operations. 
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