Featured in FUTURE PV – 09-2014

Consolidation and expansion

Industry ranking: Capacity additions and production ramps were not terms uttered often about thin producers in the recent years. But amongst the swirling winds of trade disputes, downstream integration, and steady technological progress, thin films are just about holding their own.

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Jonathan Gifford

15 Sep 2014

Twenty is the number that GreenTech Media’s Stephen Lacey likes to mention when considering the prospects of any bold, new thin film technology or company. It’s the number of companies that have folded, gone quiet, or been acquired in recent years as the rapid PV module reductions and the period of oversupply left little oxygen …

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