Toledo Solar Settles First Solar Suit Over Imported Panels Sold as Ohio-Made
Toledo Solar settled a First Solar lawsuit that said it sold Malaysian-made First Solar modules under its own name, claiming they were made in Ohio.
GSA Buys USA-Made Low-Carbon Glass for Richmond Federal Courthouse
GSA awarded a $5.3 million option for low embodied carbon window glass made in the USA by Vitro Architectural Glass, its first such clean-materials purchase.
Walmart Launches USA-Made Compostable Cutlery Made in San Antonio
Walmart’s Great Value Compostable Cutlery is made in a new beyondGREEN factory in San Antonio and priced below plastic cutlery in 1,400 stores.
Qcells Signs $3 Billion Deal for USA-Made Polysilicon From REC Silicon
REC Silicon will supply polysilicon from Moses Lake, Washington to Qcells’ Georgia wafer plant under a 10-year deal valued at about $3 billion.
Siemens to Make Solar String Inverters in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Siemens will start making utility-scale solar string inverters in 2024 at a Sanmina-run plant in Kenosha, scaling up to 800 megawatts a year.
EDF Orders Up to 7 GW of USA-Made Canadian Solar Modules from Mesquite, Texas
EDF Renewables North America signed a multi-year deal for up to 7 GW of TOPCon solar modules to be built at Canadian Solar’s new factory in Mesquite, Texas.
Trendco USA Picks Tuskegee, Alabama for $43 Million Nitrile Glove Plant
Trendco USA plans to invest $43 million and create 292 jobs making USA-made nitrile medical gloves at the new REAL Park in Macon County, Alabama.
First Solar Plans $1.1 Billion Fifth USA Solar Panel Factory
First Solar said it will invest $1.1 billion in a fifth USA factory with 3.5 GW of capacity, making Series 7 modules with USA-made components.
New Balance Invests $65 Million to Double USA-Made Shoe Output in Skowhegan, Maine
New Balance broke ground on a 120,000-square-foot expansion in Skowhegan, Maine, adding 200 jobs and doubling output to more than a million pairs a year.
J.N. Shapiro Debuts Resurgence, a Watch Almost Entirely Made in the USA
Inglewood watchmaker Joshua Shapiro launched Resurgence, a $70,000 watch with a USA-made movement, the first of its kind in about 50 years.