Thin-film specialist Inventux is latest German PV casualty

Inventux will continue to operate while new investors are sought

Thin-film PV specialist Inventux has filed for insolvency, adding its name to the roll-call of German solar companies to hit the rocks in recent months.

Inventux, which employs more than 200 people, will continue to operate while new investors are sought for the business, says insolvency administrator Rolf Rattunde.

Berlin-based Inventux joins major names such as Q-Cells, Solon and Solar Millennium among the German groups to enter bankruptcy under the pressure of global oversupply and ferocious competition from Asia.

In an unusually forthright statement, Rattunde claims the company could represent a good long-term bet.

“The situation of Inventux is linked with the broader question [of] whether Germany can sustain future-oriented technologies like silicon-based thin-film modules, or whether…

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