The embattled German solar company and its German subsidiaries on Friday unexpectedly filed for insolvency  at the district court in Hamburg.

The Frankfurt (Oder) plant has a 250MW module production capacity and employs 320 workers, while the Rangsdorf unit has 200 employees. Conergy has a total of 1,200 employees, 800 of who are based in Germany.

Conergydenied earlier reports in the German media that production at its MountingSystems unit was also halted.

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