(EnergyAsia, December 4, Tuesday) --- Spire Corporation, a Nasdaq-listed solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules worldwide, is participating in the Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference (PVSEC-17) in Fukuoka, Japan from December 3 to 6.

Spire will share the exhibit space with its Japanese partner, Nisshinbo Industries. Spire’s chairman and CEO, Roger G. Little, and chief operating officer, Rodger W. LaFavre will both attend the conference.

“Japan is the second largest country market in the world for solar photovoltaics and represents an important and growing market for Spire,” said Mr Little. “Last year alone, Japan installed approximately 350 megawatts of solar photovoltaic energy and we are pleased to be here in support of our Japanese partner.”

“We expect that in addition to Spire Nisshinbo Japanese customers, many other customers from the region will attend the conference,” said Mark Willingham, Spire’s vice president of corporate marketing.

“With the rapid growth in the PV marketplace worldwide, Spire wants to ensure that our latest advances in technology and services are well understood and PVSEC-17 offers a great opportunity to do so. Spire offers a wide range of products and services to ensure success in PV manufacturing for both new entrants and plant expansion. Getting to market quickly and efficiently remains critical to success and Spire provides everything needed to do so.”

Spire provides turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules worldwide. Spire also provides high efficiency gallium arsenide solar concentrator cells to systems manufacturers through its wholly owned subsidiary Bandwidth Semiconductor.