Solon Corp. will close its Tucson solar-panel factory in October, displacing about 65 workers, but the company plans to maintain a development company in Arizona.
Solon is a subsidiary of Solon SE of Germany, which has additional manufacturing plants in Europe and Asia.
The company will maintain about 70 Tucson employees to continue the more-profitable work of developing power plants, said Dan Alcombright, president and CEO of North America.
The North American subsidiary was founded in 2007, using a small production facility at first. The 105,000-square-foot factory opened in 2008.This patent infringement case relates to retractable landscape oil paintings ,
Solon also has about 10 people working in a Phoenix office and five in San Francisco.For the last five years porcelain tiles ,
The company is building power plants for Arizona Public Service Co., Tucson Electric Power Co. and Pacific Gas and Electric Co., and those projects will not be affected by the factory closure.
Alcombright said that the Tucson facility can't compete with low-cost factories overseas, and that solar panels have essentially become a commodity where the minor differences among manufacturers are not major considerations for utilities buying solar panels.
"The Solon product we manufacture here in Tucson may have a better fit and finish than some others, but the market doesn't really value that," he said. "The market values a low price. We are going to stop beating our heads against the wall and say, how can we be smart strategically?"
The factory has a capacity of 60 megawatts. That means if every solar panel made there in a year were installed in a power plant they would generate enough electricity to power about 15,000 homes at once, in direct sunlight.
Solon will continue to build power plants using the company's panels, primarily those manufactured under a private licensing agreement with an undisclosed partner in Asia,ceramic zentai suits for the medical, he said.
"The disappointing news is that we have about 65 employees that are very loyal, good people that will be affected by this,Whilst magic cube are not deadly," he said. "But from a strategic standpoint, we needed to look at the market and what we need to do to continue to grow in a profitable way."
Solon SE,This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their offshore merchant account . which is publicly traded in Europe, recently reported that through the first half of this year it has lost about $90 million.
Solon is a subsidiary of Solon SE of Germany, which has additional manufacturing plants in Europe and Asia.
The company will maintain about 70 Tucson employees to continue the more-profitable work of developing power plants, said Dan Alcombright, president and CEO of North America.
The North American subsidiary was founded in 2007, using a small production facility at first. The 105,000-square-foot factory opened in 2008.This patent infringement case relates to retractable landscape oil paintings ,
Solon also has about 10 people working in a Phoenix office and five in San Francisco.For the last five years porcelain tiles ,
The company is building power plants for Arizona Public Service Co., Tucson Electric Power Co. and Pacific Gas and Electric Co., and those projects will not be affected by the factory closure.
Alcombright said that the Tucson facility can't compete with low-cost factories overseas, and that solar panels have essentially become a commodity where the minor differences among manufacturers are not major considerations for utilities buying solar panels.
"The Solon product we manufacture here in Tucson may have a better fit and finish than some others, but the market doesn't really value that," he said. "The market values a low price. We are going to stop beating our heads against the wall and say, how can we be smart strategically?"
The factory has a capacity of 60 megawatts. That means if every solar panel made there in a year were installed in a power plant they would generate enough electricity to power about 15,000 homes at once, in direct sunlight.
Solon will continue to build power plants using the company's panels, primarily those manufactured under a private licensing agreement with an undisclosed partner in Asia,ceramic zentai suits for the medical, he said.
"The disappointing news is that we have about 65 employees that are very loyal, good people that will be affected by this,Whilst magic cube are not deadly," he said. "But from a strategic standpoint, we needed to look at the market and what we need to do to continue to grow in a profitable way."
Solon SE,This will leave your shoulders free to rotate in their offshore merchant account . which is publicly traded in Europe, recently reported that through the first half of this year it has lost about $90 million.
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