Green Grants To Xunlight: CEO Xunming Deng (Part 7)

SM: I am assuming that you are doing your manufacturing in Toledo because of your ties with the university? XD: It is where our company has grown up. We have had the governor and lieutenant governor over at our facilities. We have also had our senators and congresswoman come visit.

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Green Grants To Xunlight: CEO Xunming Deng (Part 6)

SM: What did you do with the $7 million you raised in 2007? XD: We built a 2 megawatt pilot line, which is a roll-to-roll production line, to produce flexible and lightweight amorphous silicon PV modules. It was almost identical to the full-scale production line we designed for later build out. We used the same prints

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