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The high tech gear needed to turn out precision solar panels. Courtesy Oerlikon.
Oerliklon is a venerable corporation among the Alps, publicly-traded on the Zurich stock exchange for a long time. They manufacture precision machine tools, textile equipment, other traditional industrial products. But they're also into the next new thing, wind and solar. I recently got to talk with some an exec at Oerlikon Solar in the U.S. It was Chris O'Brien, head of market development and government relations in North America for Oerlikon Solar and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).
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