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Since our founding in 2002, Xunlight Corporation has received a great deal of financial and resource support from the United States government, the State of Ohio and our local community. Below is a list of key milestones Xunlight has achieved to date.


January 2002

Midwest Optoelectronics, LLC (MWOE) was established to commercialize technologies developed at the University of Toledo


May 2003

MWOE receives its first grant from DOE SBIR


January 2006

MWOE and UT reach an exclusive license agreement for four sets of technology portfolios developed in the Thin Film Silicon Photovoltaic Laboratory


April 2006

Xunlight (aka: MWOE Solar) was formed and all MWOE operations were reorganized into Xunlight


May 2007

Xunlight receives Series A investment ($7 million)


July 2007

Xunlight moves its headquarters from the incubator at the University of Toledo to 122,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility at 3145 Nebraska Ave.


April 2008

Xunlight receives Series B investment ($33 million)


June 2008

Xunlight receives $5 million grant from Ohio Department of Development


June 2008

Xunlight demonstrates first solar cell deposition on 2MW roll-to-roll pilot production line


December 2008

Xunlight receives $7 million loan from the State of Ohio


June 2009

Xunlight successfully completes the installation and demonstration of its 25MW high-throughput, wide-web, roll-to-roll photovoltaic manufacturing process


September 2009

Xunlight delivers and installs its first shipment of solar modules to its first customer, the University of Toledo