Some European solar firms heading to US


FREIBERG (GERMANY): European governments, due to move to support their solar power manufacturers this week, will be too late to stop solar panel maker Meyer Burger packing up a German factory to send production to the United States.

The plant here in eastern Germany closed in mid-March with the loss of 500 jobs, as the Swiss-listed firm joined a growing list of European renewable energy manufacturing factories shutting down or moving.

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