Offering the clearest picture thus far of the new owner’s plans for Solon, Microsol’s director of corporate strategy, B Kasi Viswanathan, says Solon’s production footprint will be shifted to Asia “as we go along”, with one research-focused line to remain operational in Germany.

In March, Microsol, which is based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), acquired Solon after the German PV pioneer went bankrupt.

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