First Solar’s fifth operating US manufacturing facility creates over 800 new manufacturing jobs Facility forecast to raise Iberia Parish’s GDP by 4.4% in first full year of operations at capacity ...

First Solar Inc. inaugurated its new $1.1 billion manufacturing facility in Iberia Parish, marking a major expansion of U.S.-based solar production. The plant, which employs more than 700 workers and ...

When Georges Antoun came to Louisiana from Lebanon in the early 1980s, he needed money. The country was entering an oil crisis, and cities along the Gulf Coast — especially places like Lafayette that ...

Noble Plastics is investing $8.5 million to expand its St. Landry Parish headquarters. The expansion will supply components for First Solar's new $1.1 billion facility in Iberia Parish. This project ...

First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR), the US’s largest solar panel maker, announced it will open a new 3.7-gigawatt (GW) factory in the US to finish production of its Series 6 modules started at its overseas ...