Featured in Meet your makers – 03-2015

Picking up the fab

Inverter manufacturing: Insolvencies, job cuts and tumbling revenues have marred Europe’s solar inverter landscape, prompting the question: Are the days of inverter manufacturing in high-cost locations over? pv magazine discovers there’s no simple answer to that rather straightforward question.
By
Ian Clover

Billed as the cradle of Switzerland’s famed watch industry, the charming town of Biel prides itself on precision. Populated by proud, highly skilled citizens, it is the type of place that may lack the international air of Zurich, or Geneva’s cosmopolitan crowd, but boasts the ability to do things its own way. Which made last …

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