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Flashing roundtable

Vahid Fakhfouri: Meyer Burger Debate: During last month’s EU PVSEC event, representatives from leading solar simulator providers met to address the development of new standards for the flashing of bifacial cells. However, it is not the only technological challenge facing these equipment providers, who in some ways hold the key as to what cell and module manufacturers can charge for the output from their production lines. pv magazine brought together Vahid Fakhfouri, the head of R&D at Meyer Burger’s Technology and Product Center for Measurement Technologies (Pasan), Klaus Ramspeck, the head of Product Development at Halm, and Torsten Brammer, the cofounder and CEO at Wavelabs to discuss this and more in the second part of a special series of equipment roundtable discussions. Klaus Ramspeck: Halm Torsten Brammer: Wavelabs

pvm: There’s no denying that an expansion in both cell and module manufacturing capacity is underway and that new cell technologies are being employed. What do you make of the market for PV production equipment suppliers? Meyer Burger (MB), Vahid Fakhfouri: Over the last six months we have seen all of the traditional key players …

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