Sun Bear Solar Sdn Bhd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Bear Solar Ltd (Hong Kong), is investing RM5.2BN to build the first solar glass manufacturing plant in Malaysia. The plant will produce solar glass for solar panel and module applications to cater to the photovoltaic industry and will be located at the Kota Kinabalu Industrial Park. The first phase of the project should begin within 2010. The plant is expected to produce two lines of solar glasses, float glass and pattern glass, for use solar energy industry. Production is scheduled for the first quarter of 2012. Sun Bear Solar Chairman/CEO, Lee Holt Judd said Malaysia was chosen because of its commitment to solar panel manufacturing growth and the availability of high quality raw materials.
