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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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Next Solar, a new solar panel manufacturer based in Tripoli, Greece, has announced that it is to be use Oerlikon’s micromorph technology in the establishment of its first thin-film solar module factory. Oerlikon will deliver the turnkey production line this year, while Next Solar’s fabrication line will start production in early 2009. Read more >>

In what can only be described as frustration, Gerhard Rauter moderated a panel discussion entitled “The real needs of Fab Managers” at the recent PV Fab Managers’ Forum in Dresden, and made a general appeal to the audience to stop talking about standards for PV manufacturing and start enacting them. Read more >>

NexPower has selected BOC Lien Hwa (BOCLH), a joint venture between The Linde Group and Taiwan’s Lien Hwa Corporation, to supply the main high purity gases for its new large substrate thin film PV plant that is expected to begin operations by the second quarter of 2008. Read more >>

SCHOTT Solar has broken ground on its first phase 200,000 square foot facility in the Mesa del Sol region of Albuquerque, New Mexico that will produce photovoltaic modules and receivers for concentrated solar thermal power plants (CSP). Read more >>

With long lead-time thin film equipment such as plasma deposition, sputtering and lasers systems already ordered, XsunX has said that it is in the final stages of site selection for its thin film solar module manufacturing plant to be based in Oregon, USA. Read more >>