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Saddle up, it's off to Kuala.
From EastDay (Shanghai Daily):
German solar cell producer Q- Cells AG has announced plans to invest in a production plant in Malaysia next year, local media reported today.
The company plans to build a major manufacturing complex for photovoltaic products in Malaysia, its first in Asia, Malaysian International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz said at a media briefing in Kuala Lumpur yesterday.
"The setting up of such a solar cell and modules plant will contribute towards the government's initiatives in the creation of a solar industry cluster in the country," the New Straits Times quoted Rafidah as saying.
Q-Cells was expected to invest more than 1 billion ringgit (310. US$56 million) between 2009 and 2010 in the first phase of the manufacturing complex, Malaysian Industrial Development Authority director-general R. Karunakaran said....MORE
