Featured in FUTURE PV – 09-2014

Pivoting to silicon

Craneless maintenance: The new XEAnova tool from PV production supplier Von Ardenne has led the companys latest pivot towards c-Si tool supply, delivering a vacuum coating technique that improves coating times and most pertinent of all removes the need for crane-based maintenance.

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Jonathan Gifford

15 Sep 2014

To plant one foot and swing around in a different direction. Pivoting is a term that has become popular among the entrepreneurial and startup set, meaning to shift strategy while retaining the lessons learned and building on past successes. It is applied particularly to young companies as they go through the process of finding the …

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