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photovoltaic (PV) modules and began equipment around the world. The new with the SunFab line. T-Solar plans to
shipments in February 2009, with annual building construction is expected to reach eventually expand the line by 40%.
production capacity to attain 25MWp and completion by October 2009. www.sanyo.co.jp www.appliedmaterials.com, www.tsolar.eu.
output to reach 10MWp in 2009. Sintek
has obtained certification for its poly-Si oTB solar orders solar-cell crack centrotherm to construct 50MW thin
PV modules from Germany-based TUV detection tool from ruV systems film manufacturing plant
Rheinland and main clients are in Europe OTB Solar has ordered resonance ultra- centrotherm photovoltaics AG has received
for the time being, the company declined sonic vibrations crack detection equip- an order to construct a thin-film plant.
to disclose the names. www.sintek.com.tw ment from RUV Systems for use with its Illies Renewables GmbH, Hamburg, has
automated turnkey solar-cell manufactur- ordered a 50 MW production line for thin-
cTDc receives fund for sno2 Tco ing production lines. The inspection gear film modules based on CIGS technology
project from chinese government will also be offered as an ‘extra-quality for its production location at Magdeburg-
China Technology Development Group feature’ of the integrated manufacturing Rothensee, Germany. The order value is in
Corporation, a provider of solar energy systems. An RUV 2.2 QC Automation of- excess of EUR 60 million. Delivery of the
products and solutions in China focusing fline fully automated crack detection tool lines will begin prospectively in the first
on a-Si thin film technology, announces will be shipped soon to OTB, where it will half of 2010. www.centrotherm-pv.de
that CTDC has been awarded a fund of be deployed to analyze and demonstrate
RMB 600,000, or US$88,000 from Fujian the performance of its production lines, Mitsubishi breaks own record with
Province, a Chinese local government, for specifically the issue of crack initiation, the conversion efficiency rate of 18.9%
its SnO2 TCO Base Plate project. These companies said. www.otb-solar.com, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation President
proceeds, in the form of free appropria- www.ruvsystems.nl. and CEO Setsuhiro Shimomura an-
tion, will be used to fund corporate R&D nounced that it has improved its world’s
in PV technology. www.chinactdc.com suntech takes on minority stake in highest conversion efficiency rate for a 150
asia silicon x 150 millimeter practical-size multi-crys-
smit ovens supplies Jenn Feng Chinese solar energy company Suntech talline silicon photovoltaic (PV) cell by 0.3
industrial with thermal processes Power Holdings Co. bought a minority points from 18.6 percent to achieve a new
for mass production of cigs stake in polysilicon producer Asia Silicon world record of 18.9 percent. Mitsubishi
Smit Ovens announced on Monday that for $8.1 million. The deal is in addition to Electric will begin introducing this multi-
it has signed a deal to supply Taiwanese an earlier polysilicon supply agreement be- crystal silicon PV cell technology into mass-
company Jenn Feng Industrial with ther- tween the Wuxi, China-based Suntech and produced PV modules from fiscal 2011
mal process solutions for mass production Qinghai, China-based Asia Silicon. That (April 1, 2010-March 31, 2011).
of thin film photovoltaic (PV) cells. Under pact involved Asia Silicon producing $1.5 www.global.mitsubishielectric.com
the deal, Smit Ovens will provide equip- billion worth of polysilicon for Suntech
ment and non-vacuum processes for in-line over seven years. www.suntech-power.com sun Well solar’s facility
manufacture of CIGS (copper-indium-galli- outperforms with oerlikon solar’s
um-selenide) PV cells, incorporating use of green energy Technology to spin-off thin film technology
nanoparticle precursors in the selenization thin-film pV module business Oerlikon Solar and Sun Well Solar, a
process. www.smitovens.nl, www.jennfeng.com Green Energy Technology (GET), a subsidiary of CMC Magnetics, announced
Taiwan-based maker of solar-grade poly- that the ramp-up of the 40 MW amor-
Delsolar obtains us $120 million crystalline silicon (poly-Si) ingots/wafers as phous thin film silicon production line
loan for establishing solar cell well as amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin-film has been completed one month ahead
capacity in china photovoltaic (PV) modules, is consider- of schedule. The installation includes
DelSolar, a Taiwan-based maker of crystal- ing separating the latter business into a the innovative Oerlikon Solar LPCVD
line silicon solar cells, on February 16 subsidiary. No time-line has been set for TCO front and back contact technology,
signed with four local banks and the De- the spin-off due to the current economic which has clearly proven its capability in
velopment Bank of Singapore for a 5-year climate. The spin-off is to make the man- mass production over the last 6 months as
syndicated loan of US $120 million (NT agement for ingots/wafers and PV modules average module power production yields
$4 billion), with the funds earmarked for mutually independent and more efficient, exceeded contractual targets. The Sun Well
setting up an annual production capacity GET explained. IEC certification was accomplished in
of 240MWp at its factory in Wujiang, east- October 2008. The completion of the Sun
ern China, by the end of 2009. DelSolar T-solar starts thin film production Well production ramp-up marks the first
currently has existing annual production T-Solar Global S.A. has begun volume successful “end-to-end” installation of a
capacity of 120MWp in northern Taiwan. production of the world’s largest solar pho- thin film silicon production line within the
www.delsolarpv.com tovoltaic modules using a SunFab™ Thin PV industry. www.oerlikon.com
Film Line supplied by Applied Materials,
Sanyo to raise cell capacity to 600MW Inc. The solar panels, sized at 5.7m2, are gs-solar to produce thin film solar
Sanyo Electric will increase production ideally suited for large-scale solar farm cells in Beijing
capacity for HIT solar cells by building new applications where installation costs can be Golden Sun (Fujian) Solar Technology
production facilities inside the grounds reduced by about 20% over smaller scale Co., Ltd. (GS-Solar) sees its thin film solar
of the Nishikinohama Factory, Kaizuka panels. T-Solar is expected to annually cell project settled down in Beijing’s new
City, Osaka, already a production base for produce 700,000m2 of PV panels with the green energy industrial base. The base, to
Sanyo’s proprietary HIT solar cells, to meet potential to generate up to 45 megawatts be built in the Mafang Industrial Park of
active demand for solar power generation equivalent module production per year Pinggu District, is designed to focus on
36 – Global Solar Technology – March/April 2009 www.globalsolartechnology.com
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