At last week's PV Expo in Tokyo, Sharp presented a range of solar products including its high-efficiency black/black module that is produced in Japan. The company has relied heavily on OEM production elsewhere in Asia for supplying multicrystalline modules to the strong Japanese market. There are indications that these arrangements may no longer be profitable on the back of the weak yen. Given this and the need for the company to rapidly raise cash as its debt-to-equity ratio continues to deteriorate on a corporate level, a sale of its solar assets and business looks increasingly likely. "Sharp is not healthy at the moment," RTS Corporation's Izumi Kaizuka told pv magazine. "I think Sharp outsourced manufacturing to overseas companies and with the very weak yen over the last year, it is losing money." Reports in the Japanese media regarding Sharp's moves to find an investor in its solar business have begun to proliferate. In writing on the company's expected move to request a debt-for-equity swap ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...