Solar Frontier Ltd.



Solar Frontier is a 100% subsidiary of Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., which is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and has roots dating back more than 100 years in the downstream energy business, including research in solar energy that began in 1978.

Company Overview:

Solar Frontier is one of the leading solar panel manufacturers which provide the most economical, ecological solar energy solutions on earth, on the world's largest scale. Their proprietary CIS technology (for key ingredients Copper, Indium, and Selenium) combines compelling economics and energy conversion efficiency today, and greater potential for tomorrow with superior reliability, stability, sustainability, non-toxicity, design, and lower overall energy consumption in the manufacturing process to yield a faster energy payback time. Their newest plant in Miyazaki, Japan, scheduled to commence operations in 2011, will become the world's largest CIS production facility, at 900MW per year, and bring the gigawatt class production levels, enabling to meet worldwide demand for a new standard in affordable solar panel performance.