SCHOTT and WACKER Lay the Cornerstone for New Solar Wafer Production Plant in Jena
WACKER SCHOTT Solar will produce multicrystalline silicon wafers for solar cells
Jena, Oct 29, 2007
Source:SCHOTT Solar press release
http://www.schott.com/english/news/press.html
New production facility expected to reach a capacity of 100 megawatts already by the end of 2008. Today, the two German companies SCHOTT AG (Mainz) and Wacker Chemie AG (Munich) officially laid the cornerstone for a new silicon solar wafer manufacturing facility of their joint venture WACKER SCHOTT Solar GmbH in Jena, Germany. By April 2008, both partners will be completing stage one of their joint wafer production facility in Jena with total capital expenditures of approx. €50 million.
This move will result in the initial creation of 140 new jobs at the site. Production capacity is estimated to reach around 100 megawatts (MW) per year already by the end of 2008. Wafer fabrication in the new facility will rely on conventional technology; thus individual wafers are sawed from multicrystalline silicon ingots. Manufacturing equipment will be installed in a two-story building with a floorspace of over 7,500m2.