“Solar Frontier continues to look at possible locations for production bases worldwide,” Yuichi Kuroda — the company's executive officer and vice president of global business development — tells Recharge by email. “Buffalo is one possible location for such a facility in North America.”
The Tokyo-based thin-film PV specialist said in April that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with a branch of the State University of New York (SUNY) to look at the possibility of establishing a joint R&D and manufacturing facility in New York state.
