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AUSTIN-After months of searching nationwide and sparking somecontroversy on its home turf, HelioVolt Corp. has decided to putits flagship plant in the 122,400-sf Expo 8 building in the ExpoBusiness Park. HelioVolt has signed a 10-year lease for thebuilding in Southeast Austin.

Including the lease, operating costs and renovations to thejust-completed shell, HelioVolt will invest more than $100 millionto make the building usable for manufacturing thin-film solarproducts. Robert Langdon, HelioVolt's VP of marketing, says thecompany searched the US to find the ideal site.

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