Solar panel firm to locate at Windsor Airport

One of the world's leaders in the manufacture of solar panels is announcing a major Windsor investment today that could see 120 jobs created before the end of the year and an estimated 200 by the end of 2011, The Star has learned.
A $30-million factory will be built on city-owned lands at Windsor Airport by a joint venture between a recently created Canadian company and HHV Solar, a multinational based in India with manufacturing facilities there and in the United States and Australia.
The announcement comes on the heels of news that German manufacturer Schletter Inc. is quietly opening a Windsor facility this spring that will build support racks for solar panels.
The city, which owns the airport, could become a corporate landlord in the deal, with the airport possibly building the plant, expected to be about 45,000 square feet, and then leasing it back to Solar Source Ontario Corp., a Solar Bancorp company that is teaming up with India's HHV.
The facility would cost $4 million to $5 million to build, which the airport would recoup in lease payments.
11/05/10 Doug Schmidt/The Windosr Star, Canada

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