10-02 :: February 2010
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© Dyesol
only project, says Richard Caldwell: “The exciting cost effective prices, and cost is all about scale. So,
thing for our company is that we expect to announce latest prediction talk about grid competitive electri-
one or two additional relationships not in the steel city, without the assistance of subsidies at 9% DSC
place but in similar scale projects over the next six [Dye-Sensitized Cells] efficiency by 2011, that‘s
months. Merck is only one of a number of potential industrial DSC going from 6 to 9% by 2011, that‘s
partners,” he adds. Innovation continues to be the going to make a very, very competitive product. The
right way for Dyesol instead of large scale manufac- commercialization strategy is in the tight hands of
turing. Richard Caldwell: “So, we clearly need to be Corus and we can‘t speak for that, but we under-
thinking about how we can provide the raw materials stand they have a very big commitment to doing this.
for that production – dyes, electrolytes and pastes. And we know that.”
That puts us in the provision of multiple billions of
dollars of materials if the commercialization is suc- That is only DSC on steel; on glass there are a
cessful. Dyesol does not want to be a large scale ma- number of other opportunities. “We also seek to
nufacturer. We want to be a provider of innovation. achieve that in the glass space as well. Glass has
We consider ourselves more and more a technology the same potential ultimately as steel, if not more,”
facilitation company or a platform technology com- says Richard Caldwell and he believes that all this
pany. So, our intention is to collaborate with compa- present very interesting opportunities. In the glass
nies like Merck in the electrolyte and dye space. space Dyesol used the regional model. They have
Their expertise is absolutely vital to bring down the the Italian consortium, the Korean Joint Venture, and
costs, because, we have the formulations, they have also look for major opportunities in the U.S. with the
the process standards.” Regarding Corus he adds: creation of Dyesol Inc. It is important to understand
“Of course we need to be able to supply Corus at that by using building integrated products on buil-
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