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Article: Evergreen shifts work to China ; Solar panels won't be assembled at Devens factory
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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Little more than a year after cutting the ribbon at a new factory
in Devens built with more than $58 million in state aid, Evergreen
Solar said yesterday that it will shift its assembly of solar panels
from there to China.
About half of the 577 full-time and 230 contract employees at the
Devens factory are involved in putting the panels together.
Evergreen declined to say how many of those jobs would disappear
with the scheduled transfer next year to China, where it is
expanding because of lower costs.
Evergreen uses the Devens facility to make the silicon wafers and
cells used in the production of solar energy. It also assembles
those parts into the solar panels that increasingly adorn ...