The
site
at
Vénissieux,
near
Lyon,
was
reconverted
from
an
older
Bosch
factory
producing
rail-injection
pumps,
which
was
shut
down
last
year
due
to
declining
demand.
By
shifting
production
to
PV
modules,
Bosch
says
it
was
able
to
retain
200
workers.
The
plant
will
produce
five
different
types
of
mono-
and
multi-crystalline
modules,
and
is
expected
to
reach
its
full
150MW
capacity
by
July.
Bosch
announced
the
factory
conversion
in
2010,
two
years
after
plunging
headlong
into
the
solar
industry
via
its
€1.1bn
($1.4bn)
acquisition
of
Germany's
ersol
(since
branded
as
Bosch
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