THE PROJECT: There is a mood of moving towards new horizons in Hillsboro, the US production location of SOLARWORLD newly opened in the fall of 2008. Some 300 million US dollars were invested, 250 new jobs were created and in the years to come several hundreds more will be added. Here in Oregon in the immediate vicinity of the Portland semiconductor industry center we found ideal site conditions and above all qualified and committed employees who are a perfect match with us. And how good the “match” is was shown by the very fast construction time of the new factory. In only 18 months a highly advanced production site for solar power technology was established here. The new employees from Hillsboro and the old employees from our German production site in Freiberg jointly made this possible. Now we are ready to go. We want to have a hand in creating it – the turning of the energy tide as announced by the new US president Barack Obama. And we want to do it with our employees.