Perrysburg's Willard & Kelsey Solar lays off employees

  Solar company Willard & Kelsey, the company Joe Biden and Hilda Solis visited recently in Perrysburg, has received millions of dollars in loans from various sources, including the Ohio Department of Development, the Ohio Air Quality Development Authority, and some federal grants; the company has announced layoffs, like many other solar companies.
  Total grant money appears to be about about $20 million.
  From today's Toledo Blade:

Willard & Kelsey Solar Group LLC laid off about 40 people indefinitely at the beginning of January until changes to its production line are completed, a company official said Monday.Michael Cicak, the company's chief executive officer and chairman of the board, would not say when the changes would be completed or when the laid-off employees could return to work. 

"We have some technical people in here improving the efficiency of the assembly line," Mr. Cicak said, adding that the Perrysburg-based facility still has about 30 employees.

Willard & Kelsey was sued by a Luxembourg limited liability association in 2011. 
Perrysburg has several solar companies. Ohio:

Ohio was second in the nation for solar-panel manufacturing during the first quarter of this year, in part because of the start of production at Willard & Kelsey Solar Group LLC in Perrysburg, according to a solar-industry trade group.