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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
220 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 September 2009
Employment effect (start)
3 January 2011
Foreseen end date
30 December 2011
Description
French solar power firm Solairedirect, which specializes in photovoltaics, has announced the creation of a factory in the Poitou-Charentes region and the addition of 80 new jobs in the short term and another 140 in the long term. The new plant will be completed in 2011 and will specialize in the production of crystalline photovoltaic panels. No financial details about the investment have been disclosed.
Solairedirect has chosen to build its plant in Poitou-Charentes because the regional authorities have an ambitious plan for developing the local solar power sector. In particular, the region plans to have an installed capacity of 270 Megawatt by 2015. The Ministry for Industry has given the planning permission to the project.
Eurofound (2009), Solairedirect, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 69594, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69594.
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