Featured in Lean machines – 09-2011

New lamination concepts

Lamination: The lamination process is often the bottleneck in a PV module production line. Hence, it is time to think about new processes. Ronald F.M. Lange, founder of consulting firm 9-om, describes new concepts for the encapsulation of standard photovoltaic modules.

The encapsulation or lamination of PV active materials is seen as a critical process step. A direct financial aspect is that the lamination step, in general irreversible, results in costly mistakes. Other, more technical aspects are that the lamination process is often the bottleneck in the PV module production line, and that a mistake in …

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