Wednesday, May 23, 2012

100 employees at Idaho plant laid off

HONOLULU -- Honolulu-based commercial solar power company Hoku Corp. says its subsidiary is laying off about 100 employees at an Idaho manufacturing plant. . .  The Pocatello plant was to have made silicon for solar panels. All contractors stopped construction work at the facility last month. Hoku says some lienholders have started foreclosure proceedings against the plant in Idaho courts. . .