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FLABEG Solar U.S. Corp. Opens New Solar Mirror Plant With Greater Product Range

		PRNewswire, London, October 29. FINDLAY, Ohio and NUREMBERG, Germany - More capacity to catch the sun: FLABEG's new solar mirror plant. (PRNewsFoto/FLABEG Holding GmbH) FINDLAY AND NUREMBERG, OHIO UNITED STATES, GERMANY

    FINDLAY, Ohio and NUREMBERG, Germany, October 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Now on
stream: FLABEG, global leader in high-tech glass and mirror applications,
is opening a new production facility for solar mirrors which are used to
help generate electricity at large-scale solar power plants. The new
209.00sq.ft manufacturing facility is erected in the Clinton Commerce Park
near Pittsburgh International Airport.

    (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20091029/364674 )

    The factory will have an annual capacity to deliver parabolic curved
mirrors up to 450 MW for PT plants. This production site is therefore
equipped to produce tempered solar mirrors in addition to the established
monoliths, untempered mirrors.

    "Our philosophy has undergone no change, nevertheless we want to be
fully prepared for all possible changes in the law," commenting FLABEG CEO
Axel Buchholz on the extended production range. "We expect some federal
states will introduce standards for safety glass for Concentrated Solar
Power applications. Our core production will remain with untempered solar
mirrors."

    Field tests indicate a breakage rate of 0.027% for FLABEG untempered
solar mirrors. At such low levels breakage is not an issue.

    "As always FLABEG continues to keep abreast of the changing demands of
the market," says Buchholz. The facility will in future also be home to
thinglass applications for Solar Dishes and Concentrated PV and also flat
mirrors for Power Tower heliostats and Linear Fresnel power plants.

    FLABEG, founded in 1882, is an independent company with manufacturing
facilities in Europe, America and Asia. FLABEG is active in the commercial
sectors of automotive mirrors, solar glass mirrors and technical glass,
specializing in all processes of glass finishing, and sets technological
standard in terms of the company's core competencies - bending and coating.



    FLABEG Solar U.S. Corp.
    Mr David Littau
    2201 Sweeney Drive
    Clinton Commerce Park
    PE 15026
    ph: +1-724-719-8529
    David.Littau@flabeg.com
    http://www.flabeg.com