The move represents another heavy blow to the flagging amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin-film sector, and further underscores the challenges facing German PV manufacturers.
Although Schüco has been offering PV and solar-thermal products since the late 1990s as part of its broader sustainable construction materials business, it substantially deepened its bet on PV only a few years ago as the building-integrated PV market began to blossom.
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