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Revival within the equipment industry

Interview: During the period of oversupply within the PV sector it was often said that rumors of the death of PV were greatly exaggerated. However, are reports of an equipment supply recovery similarly overstated? Christian Buchner, Head of Business Unit Photovoltaics at Schmid, does not believe that is the case, as a wave of new technology uptake and manufacturing capacity expansions begin to fill order books once more.

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pv magazine

29 Jul 2015

What do you make of the global PV manufacturing landscape at present, from your perspective as a production equipment supplier? I don’t think that manufacturers are making large amounts of money because prices have come down so much. It is very difficult with cell and module manufacturing to make money these days, and it is …

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