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As part of its own globalization strategy, Q-Cells AG announced that it has decided to construct the company’s seventh production line in Malaysia. The company said it primarily anticipates advantages in opening up new growth markets and better protection against fluctuations in exchange rates from the construction of a factory for polycrystalline solar cells, which should reach a production capacity of more than 300 MWp over several phases of expansion. Construction will start in the second quarter of 2008 and the ramp-up phase for the first step (160 MWp) isexpected to start in the first quarter of 2009. www.qcells.de |