"SolarWorld left SPE this morning," SolarWorld vice president Milan Nitzschke said in answer to a question from Recharge at a press conference on the trade dispute held at the Intersolar Europe event.

"For a solar manufacturer [producing] in Europe and the US, there was no way to stay in that association."

Nitzschke said that his company took the step to leave the group after it became obvious that opposing the EU's anti-dumping tariffs and minimum prices for Chinese products had become bigger for SPE than every other issue.

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