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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
1,400 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
19 January 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2008
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
Photowatt, a company specialised on photovoltaics, announced on 19 January 2007 its plans to enlarge a factory called 'Photovoltaïque' in the east of France (Bourgoin Jallieu, Isère).
Photowatt currently employs 500 people at the site and will create 1,400 additional jobs between January 2008 and December 2009 in Bourgouin Jaillieu.
The company has invested more than 125 million USD since 2002 into Spheral Solar, a joint venture of Photowatt with another company, but has yet to see any revenue from the business. Spheral Solar, which employs about 90 people in Cambridge, is developing technology for flexible solar panels that may be used in places not suitable for rigid, rectangular panels.
Sources
20 January 2007: Le Progrès
20 January 2007: Ouest France
20 January 2007: Libération
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Photowatt, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 64795, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/64795.
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