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Market is murky on FiT cuts, natural disasters and renewed economic uncertaintySAGE added a glass manufacturing plantin Faribault, Minn.Solutia opened a commercial-gradeVistasolar EVA encapsulant manufacturingfacility in Suzhou, China.Sumitomo Chemical is increasing itsJapanese production capacity for highlyfunctional resins used for manufacturingsolar cells in October to nearly 30,000 tons/year.Taiflex Scientific received DuPonttechnology licensing for PV back sheets.Teknek introduced Ultracleen range ofcleaning roller for flat panel display, solarphotovoltaic, touch panel, and other thinfilms.Toyobo is investing 7 billion yen to increaseprotective film production for solar cellsand touch panels.Process equipmentAmtech appointed Dr. James Hwang asCTO and Dr. SooKap Hahn to board ofdirectors.BTU International named Jack Antouniandirector of operations.Centrotherm Photovoltaics and KineticsGermany constructed an almost fullyintegrated solar module factory in Algeria.DEK Solar PVP1200 print platform wasused by Institute for Solar Energy ResearchHamelin to accomplish record 19.4%crystalline silicon cell efficiency.GT Solar monocast silicon materialachieved average cell efficiencies of 18.8%with highest efficiencies exceeding 19%on monocast silicon material as testedby Researchers at Georgia Institute ofTechnology.J.v.G. Thoma group received contract forset-up of a turnkey PV production line inIndia.MAG delivered turnkey 30 MWphotovoltaic module system to Solar-Energy sp.z o.o. in Bozepole Wielkie,Poland.Meyer Burger acquired Roth & Rau.Rite Track hired John Marcheschi as VP ofsales.Schmid Group delivered 1000th wetprocessing system made in China.R&DOerlikon Solar and the Institute of Physics’photovoltaic group at the Academy ofSciences of the Czech Republic discoveredthat ‘Swiss cheese’ design enables thin filmsilicon solar cells with potential for higherefficiencies.University of Missouri engineer developedflexible solar sheet that captures more than90% of available light.Silicon ingot waferApplied Materials received 2.5 GW orderfor HCT B5TM wire saws from GCL-PolyEnergy.AUO Crystal broke ground on 250MW solar monocrystalline ingots andmonocrystalline wafer plant in CentralTaiwan Science Park’s Houli base.Comtec Solar Systems is targeting 1,400MW output capacity for 2011.20100329Cost Breakdown of Single String Inverter forResidential Application - 200920101216Demand Increase in 2010 by Inverter Power LevelMagnetic ComponentsPower Electronic Compo>500 kWBoard & Electronics31%10%12%101-500 kW19%36-100 kW23%5%Enclosure10-35 kWTest