FLABEG Starts Construction on Its First U.S. Solar Mirror Plant

Apr 28th, 2009 | By Editor | Category: Industry News

Flabeg, a manufacturer of solar mirrors, technical glass and automotive mirrors, headquartered in Germany, has begun construction on a new 209,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Pittsburgh that will produce high-precision parabolic mirrors used to generate electricity at large-scale solar power plants. Funding of the $30 million project will be assisted by a $9 million grant from Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell. The company expects to generate as many as 300 jobs in the facility.

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Production is expected to begin by October 2009, and first deliveries are scheduled for November 2009. The factory will have a capacity of up to 1 million parabolic curved mirrors annually, and already has seen orders for 700,000 mirrors.

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