Saudi Arabia has announced the establishment of the region's largest factory for solar panels production in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region at Tabuk Industrial City on a 27,000-sq-m area.
The factory, strategically located near Saudi Arabia's ambitious giga projects - Neom and the Red Sea, has been set up at an investment of SR700 million ($186.4 million).
The new Tabuk facility uses automated machines for its production, and employs latest international technologies in the field. Once fully operational, it will boast an estimated production capacity of 1.2 GW, it added.
