Featured in Keeping your powder dry – 03-2016

“A race to lock in alternative suppliers”

Interview: A gas leak at Dowa Hightech’s manufacturing facilities in January has caused knock-on effects through the silver paste supply segment. Andreas Liebheit, head of the photovoltaics business of Heraeus, met with pv magazine in Berlin to discuss the implications.

pv magazine: What was your initial reaction to the industrial accident at Dowa in Japan on January 3? Andreas Liebheit: My family is in Japan, and we were sitting ready for dinner, watching the Japanese prime time news at 7 p.m. and the accident was the lead story. It really was a tragedy. But I …

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