To increase solar module capacity, Kyocera is constructing a second plant in Kadan, Czech Republic, and has just expanded its Tianjin, China plant.
The Czech facility, to be completed by winter 2011, will have an annual capacity of 360MW, making a total of 560MW/year at Kadan.
"Following the rapid growth of the solar market in recent years, Kyocera has been continually increasing the production capacity of its cell and module manufacturing facilities across the globe," said the firm.
In 2003, the company's original Tianjin solar module plant was the first solar module production facility to be established by a Japanese company in China.
Operations from the existing plant will be gradually transferred to the new bigger plant by spring of this year.
"Once the facility is fully operational, it will have an annual production capacity of 360MW, approximately 3.5 times more than the site's current capacity," said Kyocera.
With its other facilities in Japan, Mexico and the US, Kyocera is aiming for 1GW/year by April 2013.