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Sharp Corporation held a groundbreaking ceremony for its next multi-application manufacturing plant in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan that it calls a "Manufacturing Complex for the 21st Century." Sharp is maintaining its vertically integrated business model that will see both thin-film solar panels and Gen 10 LCD panels (2,850mm x 3,050mm) manufactured at a massive new (1.27 million m²) site that will house a complex of plants and support buildings at a cost of ¥380 billion. Read more >>

China Nuvo Solar Energy has teamed with Pioneer Materials to establish a pilot development and manufacturing operation in PMI’s Chengdu, Sichuan, China facility located in Chengdu’s West High Tech development zone. Read more >>

A new Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS) solar cell manufacturer has selected Eyelit’s Enterprise Manufacturing Execution Suite of software offerings for its first solar production plant, the company said. Read more >>

Thin-film silicon solar photovoltaic module manufacturer Signet Solar has announced plans to ultimately produce 1 gigawatt (GW) in annual production of solar modules over the next ten years at a new plant to be built in India at an estimated final cost of approximately $2 billion U.S. dollars. Read more >>

BP Solar has started construction of a 300MW solar cell plant in Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain. Phase 1 of the new plant will have an annual cell capacity of 55MW with a total planned capacity of 300MW. The first line expected to be fully operational in 3Q07. Read more >>