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Building bridges between East and West

Italian module manufacturer FuturaSun has big expansion plans in China, with the first phase of a 15 GW silicon cell fab due online in Huai’an in the first quarter of 2024, in addition to 1 GW of module production in Taizhou. Erik Eikelboom, technical adviser to FuturaSun, offers a closer look at the project.

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pv magazine

05 Dec 2023

Expansion for FuturaSun also means business for equipment manufacturers. | Photos: FuturaSun

FuturaSun was founded in 2008, in the medieval town of Cittadella in Italy’s Padova province. After a phase of original equipment manufacturer production and international sales of Chinese-made PV modules, the company opened a 1 GW module facility in Taizhou, in China’s Jiangsu province. FuturaSun makes modules for large-scale arrays and rooftop PV systems, as …

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