Privately-owned parent company Schott, a specialist maker of glass, says it will continue to manufacture thin-film modules in the German state of Thuringia – mostly for use in building-integrated PV applications – as well as receiver tubes for concentrating solar power (CSP) projects.
But the decision to discontinue its entire c-Si division – which had capacities of nearly 500MW for both cells and modules – represents a stunning defeat for a company that has prided itself among the most diversified manufacturers in the solar-energy business.
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