Featured in Time for fresh concepts – 04-2011

Ready for the boom after the bust?

Turnkey TFPV: Thin film turnkey manufacturing plants are a relatively new solution seeking a place in the expanding PV equipment market, and yet it has already gone through a boom and bust. Now that sales of TFPV equipment are resurging with a force, demand for turnkey lines should follow, and companies like Manz Automation and Oerlikon Solar will benefit or will they?

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pv magazine

28 Mar 2011

Spending on PV manufacturing equipment regained health in 2010, up 88 percent to 10.4 billion U.S. dollars (USD), according to Solarbuzz PV Equipment Quarterly in January. The market research firm’s positive estimates were confirmed beyond doubt by the 2010 financial results of Centrotherm whose revenues crested the one billion euro mark on the back of …

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