Meyer Burger says it plans to put off 500 individuals at its PV module manufacturing unit in Germany, however some staff could be relocated throughout the firm. It says about 400 employees will lose their jobs.
From pv journal Germany
Switzerland-based heterojunction photo voltaic module producer Meyer Burger mentioned it should lay off 500 staff at its photo voltaic module manufacturing unit in Freiberg, Germany. The corporate first introduced plans to close down the manufacturing facility in January.
Greater than 400 individuals will in all probability lose their jobs, whereas the remainder will likely be relocated to different components of the corporate. The producer started making ready for the manufacturing unit closure on the finish of February and module manufacturing has been at a standstill because the center of March, the corporate advised German monetary newspaper Handelsblatt.
The corporate’s transfer doubtless is dependent upon the current determination of the German Free Democratic Social gathering (FPD), which is a part of the federal government coalition, to reject the introduction of a so-called “resilience bonus” within the new “Solarpaket 1” measures that the federal government is making ready for the PV sector. The bonus would have been a powerful incentive for PV producers, if applied.
The Greens social gathering expressed remorse in regards to the determination.
“The FDP within the federal authorities bears accountability for this industrial coverage blow,” mentioned Saxony Power Minister Wolfram Günther. ” The short-term assist for the photo voltaic trade by way of a resilience bonus might have secured a strategically necessary trade in a section through which China is producing PV modules offered off far beneath manufacturing value and critically distorted the market.”
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Meyer Burger is now constructing a photo voltaic cell manufacturing unit in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and a PV module manufacturing website in Goodyear, Arizona. Each of the amenities at the moment are below development, with a focused manufacturing capability of two GW every.
Previous to the choice to shut the Freiberg manufacturing unit, Meyer Burger was concentrating on round 3 GW of latest annual manufacturing capability in Germany by the top of 2024, together with 1.4 GW of module manufacturing capability in Freiberg.
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