Taipei, Aug. 13, 2008 (CENS)--With Taiwanese companies of solar cells clustering in Letzer Industrial Park in Taiwan`s northeastern county of Yilan, a full, integrated supply chain of solar cells is gradually forming in the park.

At the moment, a number of Taiwanese upstream and downstream suppliers of solar cells have set up their plants in Letzer Industrial Park, occupying nearly 40 hectares of land there. Such a clustering effect makes the park Taiwan`s most important manufacturing base of solar cells.

Moreover, Sun Well Solar Corporation, a subsidiary of Taiwan`s CMC Magnetics Corp., has recently been approved by the park administration to set up a 21-hectare plant to turn out thin film solar cells in the park. Sun Well will achieve production capacity of 1 gigawatt in the plant in the near future, and hence plans to further apply for more hinterlands for capacity expansion.

After Taiwan`s presidential election this year, Lezter Industrial Park has become the hottest industrial park for solar cell suppliers on the island, partly because completion of No. 5 National Freeway, or called Taipei-Yilan Freeway, makes the transport between the two places more convenient, and partly because the park administration has planned to build a full supply chain of solar cells in the park.

Taiwan`s Industrial Development Bureau under MOEA has recently released additional land of about 20 hectares in Lezter Industrial Park for 26 enterprises to rent. However, this is not sufficient enough to satisfy them, as a total of 53 hectares of land is needed, based on their applications.

(by Steve Chuang)