Though they'd lost one photovoltaic module, they had three others to tap into.

Italy's solar market, the world's second largest after Germany, has attracted the world's biggest photovoltaic module makers.

Last week it said its DuPont Apollo unit had opened a thin-film photovoltaic module manufacturing plant in Shenzhen, China.

The photovoltaic module maker said it was building the system in HuaiAn City with state-owned Jiangsu Guoxin Asset Management Group.

That module incorporates electronic equipment into the frame that makes it simpler and cheaper to mount than a standard photovoltaic module.

In the photovoltaic module recycling process, the second important step (after mechanical dismantling of the frame) is EVA lamination removal.

Trina also backed its total photovoltaic module shipment outlook of 350 MW to 400 MW for 2009.

Workers of Signet Solar transport a photovoltaic module in a plant in Mochau near Dresden December 17, 2008.

A worker of Signet Solar checks a photovoltaic module in a plant in Mochau near Dresden December 17, 2008.

It has attracted the world's biggest photovoltaic module makers such as China's Suntech Power Holdings Co, Trina, Yilgli Green Energy and U.S. firm First Solar.

A worker of Signet Solar checks a photovoltaic module in a plant in Mochau, near Dresden, in this December 17, 2008 file photo.

Dzhaksaliyev said it would have annual capacity to produce 50 megawatts of photovoltaic modules.

GCL is China's largest manufacturer of polysilicon and wafers used to make photovoltaic modules.

The system differs from photovoltaic modules, which are built-in panels that covert sunlight directly into electricity.

U.S.-based First Solar is the world's lowest-cost producer of photovoltaic modules, which turn sunlight into electricity.

He then entered the business of photovoltaic modules and solar components before he created SolarWorld in 1998.