Featured in The turning point – 05-2011

Speeding past the bottlenecks

Industry ranking: For many cell producers, capacity expansion was the order of the day last year. This year, that trend is expected to continue. The pv magazine ranking of the leading crystalline cell manufacturers reveals who’s ahead of the pack.
By
Mirco Sieg

Bottlenecks don’t just happen on highways. The photovoltaic industry’s value chain is another place they can crop up. A bottleneck at one stage of the chain ultimately leads to a slowdown for everyone involved. Yet a number of cell manufacturers are still currently moving full speed ahead towards the end of the bottleneck: a slump …

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