Solar panel maker may bring 282 jobs to Millville

A New York company plans to open a solar panel manufacturing facility in Millville that would employ 282 people, many of them local glassworkers.

IPP Solar confirmed plans Thursday [Oct. 15] to partner with Italian producer MX Group and unnamed investors in Taiwan and China to produce the panels at a retrofitted glass factory in Millville.

"We are shovel-ready and ready to go," said Michael Latefi, vice president of business development for IPP, a year-old development firm based in New York City, according to an Oct. 15 pressofAtlanticCity.com report.