To meet the increased demand for solar cells, Panasonic’s 3rd largest solar cell factory in Japan Sanyo Electric (SanyoElectric) starting from April to change the part of the solar cell production by the outsourcing of procurement, and Sharp also plans to expand in 2010, outsourcing of solar cells procurement, in fact, Taiwan 2 Department of battery factory has long been the family business to contact Japanese plant expected to increase outsourcing to Taiwan solar cell factory system brought forward to help.

Foreign reports, Panasonic’s 3rd largest solar cell factory in Japan Sanyo Electric (SanyoElectric) program since 2010 (April 2010) onwards will be part of the solar cell needs to change by the external procurement of supplies, reported that Sanyo is the procurement of solar cells negotiate the issue and Taiwanese manufacturers, the procurement of products will be Sanyo’s own brand name to sell to Japan factories and schools.

Sanyo estimates that by 2010 the annual procurement volume of 10 to 30 million watts (MWp). 2011 will be raised to 50 ~ 100MWp, accounting for about 10% share of total sales of the scale.

In addition, solar cell factory in Japan Sharp Solar 2010 sales target of 12 billion watts, rose 50 percent, in addition to its own plan additional solar cell production line output, but also plans to expand outside purchases. 200 Sharp solar cell sales in the proportion of outsourcing accounted for about 15.19%.