Featured in Meet your makers – 03-2015

Made in the USA

US manufacturing: From the Silicon Forest to the Rust Belt to the South, US solar PV manufacturers are expanding once again.

By

Christian Roselund

06 Mar 2015

Image: SolarWorld

In the heart of Oregon’s high tech manufacturing cluster known as the Silicon Forest, the largest PV production facility in the United States – and the entire Western Hemisphere, for that matter – is growing once again.SolarWorld Americas this year plans to expand the crystalline silicon module manufacturing capacity at its factory in Hillsboro from …

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