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Solar Thin Films to Establish Solar Module Manufacturing Facility

Posted on: Friday, 15 August 2008, 09:00 CDT

Solar Thin Films has signed an agreement with Ulster County, New York, for the establishment of a solar module manufacturing plant.

The accord was negotiated with congressman Maurice Hinchey, Ulster County officials and representatives from the Ulster County Development Corporation and The Solar Energy Consortium.

As part of the transaction, the company will establish a new manufacturing facility in Ulster County. The facility will represent Solar Thin Films's first amorphous solar module manufacturing plant in the US.

The company will utilize solar module manufacturing machinery produced by Kraft Electronikai, based in Budapest, Hungary, a subsidiary of Solar Thin Films. The company anticipates that, once established, the facility will be capable of establishing six lines of equipment capable of producing 36MW of module power.

In addition, Solar Thin Films will also use its new Ulster County location for research into the enhancement of amorphous silicon module efficiency as well as the development of copper indium gallium selenide panels. The parties believe that the new facility will create a substantial number of new jobs in Ulster County over the next five years.

Source: Datamonitor

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