Only last year Sunfilm, which manufactures amorphous silicon modules (a-Si), grabbed headlines when it merged with Sontor, making it one of the world’s largest thin-film outfits with a combined production capacity of 145 megawatts. At the time, Sunfilm’s financial backers included Q-Cells, Good Energies and Norsun.
Sunfilm claims its business plans have been crippled by Germany’s plans to sharply reduce its solar feed-in tariff, as well as by the emerging dominance of US-based cadmium telluride thin-film maker First Solar.
