aleo solar signs contracts in Germany worth EUR 35 million
Prenzlau/Oldenburg (euro adhoc) -
Company generates best revenue in its history in Q4 2006
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aleo solar AG can already report firm orders in Germany for 2007 of EUR 35 million. These orders are for the sale of aleo modules. Corresponding agreements were signed with a number of fitters at the end of December and take effect in 2007. Heiner Willers, member of the Management Board of aleo solar AG, said: "Our business in Germany picked up again significantly in Q4." We were able to run down our inventories to a large extent and will exceed our forecasts for the year. In a buyers market, module prices are now again being seen as an incentive for investment, while the mild winter has allowed fitters to continue working to date." Jakobus Smit, the second Management Board member of aleo solar AG, is also cautiously optimistic: "At a strategic level, we are driving forward the internationalisation of our business at full speed. We finished construction of our facility in Spain at the end of last year as planned, and it has now started production. Our bread-and-butter business in Germany is going well. Our total production capacity of 100 MW (Prenzlau 90 MW, Barcelona 10 MW) gives us precisely the capacity we need to service the continued market upturn." The current debate about the reliability of energy supplies underlines the need for renewable energies, and East Germany is turning into a "Solar Valley". aleo solar AG, which is headquartered in Prenzlau, Brandenburg, has approximately 280 employees and holds a 19% stake in the thin-film facility in Brandenburg on the Havel that is currently being constructed by Johanna Solar Technology. This is scheduled to start production of its first silicon-free thin-film modules this year, with the number of employees set to rise from the current figure of 60 to 180 during the first stage of expansion alone.
end of announcement euro adhoc 15.01.2007 09:31:12
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