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Evergreen Solar gains follow-on order with groSolar - 24 June 2008
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FPL plans 110MW of solar power plants in Florida - 26 June 2008
Global thin film production output to reach 3.5GW in 2010 - 27 June 2008
U.S. BLM backtracks on solar farm applications - 04 July 2008
Martin Hermann named as Chief Strategic Officer for Advent Solar - 04 July 2008
AT&S to collaborate with Solland Solar on solar cell applications - 03 July 2008
Yingli enters 10MW module supply agreement with Enfinity - 03 July 2008
Hybrid solar cell researchers order sputtering tool from Surrey NanoSystems - 03 July 2008
LDK
Solar has added Dr. Junwu Liang to the Board of LDK Solar as an
Independent Director. Dr. Liang is the third Independent Director on
the LDK Board, and brings the total number of company Directors to
eight.
In addition to his new seat on the Board, Dr. Liang also joins the Audit, Compensation, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. He is currently a professor at the Chinese Academy of Engineering in Beijing, and has in the past served as a faculty member at the Institute of Semiconductors at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also in Beijing.
A much-published author and patent holder, Dr. Liang has worked with the Yichang Semiconductor Factory in Yichang City and recently held a 12-year tenure as Chairman of the Institute of Electronic Materials, CIE. He has a Ph.D. in material science from the Institute of Metallurgy at the Academy of Sciences in the former U.S.S.R.
LDK Solar Co., Ltd. is a solar wafer manufacturer.
By Síle Mc Mahon
