The corrugated medium and linerboard board are made of kraft containerboard, a paperboard material usually over 0.01 inches (0.25 mm) thick.
The panels contain cells made in China, Taiwan and, sometimes, Germany. Grape still plans to import inexpensive Chinese-made cells, and to buy Oregon-made inverters -- which convert direct current to alternating current -- for the panels it assembles in Eugene.
Horror at the world's largest solar farm days after it opens as it is revealed panels are SCORCHING birds that fly over them. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the world's largest solar plant of its kind, recently switched on. The plants is located on five square miles of the Mojave Desert, near the California / Nevada border.