Xunlight

Xunlight Featured as One of America’s Most Promising Startups

Xunming Deng and Liwei Xu left Nanchang, China, 25 years ago to begin graduate studies at the University of Chicago—Deng in physics and Xu, his wife, in chemistry. What they've accomplished since receiving their PhDs may be more exceptional: They've established a green-energy company in Toledo, Ohio, in the middle of America's struggling automotive manufacturing belt.
Toledo Tries to Overcome Rust-Belt Image

The glass is half full again in Toledo. The Ohio city once known as the glass-making capital of America is trying to forge a new identity as a solar energy, green jobs metropolis of the future.
Xunlight Featured on ABC World News

Once the glass-making capital of the country, most of the city’s output over the years has gone into making everything from windshields to windows for cars and buildings.
New York Times: A Splash of Green

Like his uncle, his grandfather and many of their neighbors, Arie Versendaal spent decades working at the Maytag factory here, turning coils of steel into washing machines.
Toledo Finds the Energy to Reinvent

This city became famous in the last century for being one of North America’s leading glass centers

In The News

January 26, 2010		Xunlight Featured as One of America’s Most Promising Startups
June 30, 2009		Toledo Tries to Overcome Rust-Belt Image
December 17, 2008		Xunlight Featured on ABC World News with Charles Gibson
November 2, 2008		New York Times: A Splash of Green
November 29, 2007		Governor Strickland visits Xunlight
November 18, 2007		Toledo Blade: Out of Shadows, Into Solar
December 18, 2007		The Wall Street Journal: Toledo Finds the Energy to Reinvent Itself
October 8, 2007		Newsweek: The Power of the Sun