Wafer production comes back to Spain

Rivas-Vaciamadrid-based company Aurinka is planning to start wafer manufacturing in Puertollano, Castile-La Mancha, this year. The company says its patented low-carbon production process offers low enough manufacturing costs to compete with Asian rivals.From pv magazine Spain. The bright promise of Spain's PV manufacturing sector at the beginning of the solar energy era in Europe was wiped out a decade or so ago by policies such as the repeated imposition of retroactive cuts to solar incentives. However, Spanish firm Aurinka Photovoltaic Group this week announced it intends to start wafer production ...

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