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Canadian Solar Vice President of corporate development, Robert Patterson, caught up with our very own Mark Osborne a little while ago. Together they cover the challenges of CSI's new metalurgical grade silicon product line which Robert says should account for 150MW - 200MW of production next year. They also discuss cost reduction strategies beyond silicon savings.

Canadian Solar, Inc. was founded in Canada in 2001 and was successfully listed on NASDAQ (symbol: CSIQ) in November 2006. CSI has since successfully established six wholly-owned manufacturing subsidiaries in China, manufacturing ingot/wafer (planned production in mid-2008), solar cells and solar modules. With revenues of $302.8 million in 2007, a 344% growth in revenue over 2006, and projected revenues exceeding $650 million in 2008, CSI is one of the fastest growing companies in the solar industry.