Citing a shortage of customers for its solar panel products, Siliken Canada has laid off 40 workers from its Windsor manufacturing plant. The move is only the latest blow to the region’s fledgling solar industry.
Siliken general manager Paco Caudet said the situation is “no different than in any other manufacturing sector.”
“When you have orders, you hire people and when you don’t, you lay people off,” he said…
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- Germany | Protesters ask to “Protect Solar Jobs!”
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