Featured in Looking forward – 08-2012

Window of opportunity

CEO Interview: 2012 has been a busy year for Manz AG. Already this year the company has opened new manufacturing facilities in China, released a new wet chemical tool and transferred 118 CIGS experts from Würth Solar into its own operations. However as yet, it has not sold even one of its CIGS turnkey fabs and has seen a strong decline of revenue from its PV business in 2012. pv magazine spoke to CEO Dieter Manz to find out the companys strategy in these challenging times.

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Jonathan Gifford

27 Jul 2012

There have been informal reports from the German Engineering Federation, the VDMA, that photovoltaic equipment sales are only comprising five percent of all equipment sales from German suppliers in 2012, how do you see the market? It is at the lowest levels for many years. Almost for a year there is [virtually] no investment in …

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