Sanyo Opens Silicon Ingot and Wafer Plant in Oregon
Sanyo has opened its newest PV manufacturing plant in the Salem Energy and Technology Park. The plant produces silicon ingots and wafers for the company's solar cell production. Sanyo also kicked off production of solar module assembly at a new plant in Monterrey, Mexico.
Staff -- PV Society, 11/4/2009
Sanyo Solar of Oregon LLC (Salem, Ore.) has officially opened the newest PV manufacturing plant in the Salem Energy and Technology Park. The plant will be producing silicon ingots and wafers, core materials to manufacture the company's heterojunction with intrinsic thin-layer (HIT) solar cells and modules. Initial production has officially started, and the plant plans to reach its full production capacity of 70 MW annually by April 2010.
"Our plant here in Salem will be key to making the materials needed to make finished solar modules, which will be installed to help create a more sustainable LEED system as a part of a home or business here in the USA and for Sanyo customers around the world," said Mitsuru Homma, executive vice president and member of the board of Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd.
Sanyo is augmenting current facilities with the necessary equipment and adding new facilities for future growth in response to market demand, and has set goals for an annual global production capacity of at least 600 MW by fiscal 2010.
Sanyo currently manufactures a large portion of silicon ingot and wafers in the United States, the solar cells are made in Japan, and module assembly plants are located in Mexico, Hungary and Japan.
Sanyo Energy SA de CV today announced the official opening and start of production at a new solar module assembly plant in Monterrey, Mexico, which will produce the company's HIT modules at a capacity of 50 MW/year. "Our Monterrey plant was our first overseas module assembly facility in our solar business," Homma said. "The Monterrey plant is important and vital in North America for the assembly of our world's highest-efficiency HIT modules, and the work done here has largely contributed to the growth in sales in North America, and will remain a factor as this region continues to grow."
Sanyo is augmenting its facilities with the necessary equipment and construction of new facilities in response to market demand. The company aims to reach an annual global production capacity of at least 600 MW by fiscal 2010.
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