The World's Largest-Nanometer Manufacturing Enterprises In China Opened Solar Power

Global-nanometer manufacturing boss - the United States Applied Materials announced yesterday that the company will be March 21 at the opening of the Global Development Center in Xian 56 KW solar power system, to replace part of their internal power consumption. The system is the first enterprise Shanxi Province internal solar system, at least a year to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 65 tons.

As the world's largest-nanometer manufacturing technology companies, Applied Materials in September 2006 announced the launch of solar energy strategy to enter the rapid development of solar photovoltaic production equipment market. Applied Materials solar photovoltaic production equipment will be combined with the latest technology and services, the company brings new points of economic growth.

According to industry projections (not including services related to the additional growth), the continued growth in global demand for energy, solar energy equipment market is expected to 2006 to 1 billion US dollars in 2010 to over 3 billion dollars.

China has a very rich solar energy resources, two-thirds of annual sunshine time of the land more than 2,200 hours, compared with other countries should latitude high. Applied Materials said that the United States, and China hopes to work with solar energy enterprises in China to meet growing energy demand while reducing the impact on the environment.

Source: 上海证券报 Mar. 21, 2008