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German solar start-up Heliatek rakes in €18m in fresh funding, targets manufacturing facility

German solar cell start-up Heliatek GmbH has announced that it has secured €18m (£16m) through a second round of financing that will allow it to begin work on a manufacturing facility near its Dresden...

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