Germanys Wormser Zeitung has reported that the supervisory board made the decision at a meeting held today, June 28. Around 870 employees are expected to be affected. It is still unclear, however, what the production closure will mean for the employees.
Meanwhile, the production of Schotts receivers for solar thermal plants is expected to be continued, added the newspaper. No one at Schott could be contacted to confirm the news.
In recent months, the company has successively scaled back its involvement in the German photovoltaic sector. Initially, it closed down its module production in Alzenau and wafer manufacturing operations in Jena. In doing this, around 600 jobs were lost.
In the future, Schott is only expected to continue on with the product development of its high efficiency cells and modules in Germany. Additionally, it has increased its presence in the project development business.
Translated by Becky Beetz.
This content is protected by copyright and may not be reused. If you want to cooperate with us and would like to reuse some of our content, please contact: editors@pv-magazine.com.
1 comment
By submitting this form you agree to pv magazine using your data for the purposes of publishing your comment.
Your personal data will only be disclosed or otherwise transmitted to third parties for the purposes of spam filtering or if this is necessary for technical maintenance of the website. Any other transfer to third parties will not take place unless this is justified on the basis of applicable data protection regulations or if pv magazine is legally obliged to do so.
You may revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future, in which case your personal data will be deleted immediately. Otherwise, your data will be deleted if pv magazine has processed your request or the purpose of data storage is fulfilled.
Further information on data privacy can be found in our Data Protection Policy.