Meyer Burger says it plans to place off 500 people at its PV module manufacturing unit in Germany, nevertheless some employees might be relocated contained in the agency. It says about 400 staff will lose their jobs.
Switzerland-based heterojunction photograph voltaic module producer Meyer Burger said it will lay off 500 employees at its photograph voltaic module manufacturing unit in Freiberg, Germany. The company first launched plans to shut down the manufacturing facility in January.
Larger than 400 people will most probably lose their jobs, whereas the rest will be relocated to completely different components of the company. The producer began preparing for the manufacturing unit closure on the end of February and module manufacturing has been at a standstill as a result of the middle of March, the company instructed the German financial newspaper Handelsblatt.
The company’s switch seemingly relies upon upon the most recent decision of the German Free Democratic Social Gathering (FPD), which is part of the federal authorities coalition, to reject the introduction of a so-called “resilience bonus” throughout the new “Solarpaket 1” measures that the federal authorities is preparing for the PV sector. The bonus would have been a robust incentive for PV producers if carried out.
The Greens event expressed regret in regards to the decision.
“The FDP throughout the federal authorities bears accountability for this industrial protection blow,” said Saxony Vitality Minister Wolfram Günther. ” The momentary help for the photograph voltaic commerce by a resilience bonus may need secured a strategically important commerce in an element whereby China is producing PV modules supplied off far beneath manufacturing worth and considerably distorted the market.”
