Qcells resumes solar panel production and pushes forward with $2.5 billion expansion of its Cartesville plant

Qcells, the U.S. solar manufacturing arm of South Korea’s Hanwha Solutions; resumed normal solar panel production at its manufacturing facilities in Georgia; In November, the company announced a furlough of 1,000 of its workers due to a temporary pause in production caused by a lengthy customs clearance process; The supply chain bottlenecks began earlier in the year when U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) initiated detentions of Qcells’ solar cell imports under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA); At full capacity, the two Georgia facilities will produce a combined 8.4 GW of solar panels and components annually; By the end of 2026, Qcells said it expects to employ a combined workforce of nearly 4,000 people across the two sites; The nation’s second-largest solar module manufacturer; The expansion is for manufacturing ingots, wafers, and cells.