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Italian module producer Helios Technology S.p.A. has achieved its target of 60MWp cell capacity at its manufacturing plant in Padua. The company has also begun production on its second module line, which has a capacity of 25MWp, and will potentially bring the company’s total module capacity to 50MWp by the second quarter of 2009.

Helios’s two 30MWp cell production lines - the second of which has just reached full capacity - operate in a continuous cycle and produce both mono- and polycrystalline photovoltaic cells (<16.5% polycrystalline and <17.5% monocrystalline).

The company’s initiation of its second module production line will see the output of modules comprising 60 mono- and polycrystalline cells with maximum power outputs of up to 235Wp.