Three such centres have already been initiated by the government, in advanced manufacturing, cell biology and offshore renewables.
The solar cell manufacturing industry for years made do with hand-me-down tools from the computer chip industry.
Piper Jaffray analyst Jesse Pichel said high prices for polysilicon--a key material used in solar cell manufacturing--eroded LDK's margins.
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This month, China is set to decide on whether to place a tariff on U.S. chemical imports specifically polysilicon used in the solar cell manufacturing process.
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Energy agreed to build a fuel-cell manufacturing plant in Delaware.
In 2008, Trina is determined to "lower our module manufacturing costs through constant improvements in cell efficiencies, wafer thickness reduction, and manufacturing process innovation, " he added.
In fact, by the end of 2013, cell and panel manufacturing could disappear all together in the United States.
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The inability of the vaccine industry to react more swiftly to a single bad bacterial contamination underscores the need for a better manufacturing process, one using mammalian cell cultures.
Novartis, for instance, recently won FDA approval for FlucelVax, which uses animal cell culture instead of traditional manufacturing that uses chicken eggs, a faster production process that can hasten stockpiling.
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And, the creation of that plastic solar cell could change the requirements for the manufacturing of organic printed electronics.
"The advantage of in-cell is that you're streamlining the manufacturing process, so in time you should be able to drive efficiencies and reduce cost, " IHS analyst Rhoda Alexander told Wired.
By switching to a new display with in-cell touch sensing, Apple was expected to reduce its manufacturing expenses.
Last year in April 2012, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created the first plastic solar cell (Forbes: New Technique Creates First Plastic Solar Cell) which they hope will help change requirements for manufacturing of organic printed electronics.
Mass production should be easy because Lilliputian's fuel-cell chip can be made using 20-year-old semiconductor manufacturing equipment prevalent throughout Asia.
The SunShot initiative focuses on bringing down costs by pursuing innovations in four particular areas, including solar cell technology, power electronics that optimize the performance of installations, improvements in manufacturing processes, and installation and system design.
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The new manufacturing plant will be complementary to Angel's existing core business in advanced biologics, which includes biopharmaceutical proteins and cell therapies, such as stem cells.
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