Featured in Solar superhero – 06-2012

The Indian case

Indian manufacturing: The rise of the Asian solar cell and panel producers could not have happened without the aid of European solar equipment suppliers. All these companies have enjoyed huge sales and orders as Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese and of late Malaysian and Indian companies have added – and continue to add – massive capacities.

With record global sales of US$14.2 billion, the photovoltaic production equipment segment had a great year in 2011. Equipment suppliers like GT Solar, Schmid, Meyer Burger, Roth & Rau , centrotherm photovoltaics and Applied Materials had one of the best years in business in 2011 as photovoltaic manufacturers ordered up production equipment to set up …

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