Featured in Automation in motion – 05-2010

Less iron, more transparency

Solar glass: A new float glass factory of F-Glass, a joint venture between Scheuten and Interpane, now makes very clear glass with low iron content. As a result, more sunlight is passed on to the solar cells and module efficiency increased. And as the glass is also coated directly in the production plant, production is also cheaper.

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pv magazine

17 Sep 2010

If you’re going to take a long trip, you need to make proper preparations. Plans for the new float glass plant in Osterweddingen near Magdeburg, Germany, took two and a half years. But at the beginning of last August, it all finally paid off. That was when the “furnace campaign,” as glass makers say, began …

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