Germanys Von Ardenne has announced today that it has signed a lucrative supply deal with China National Building Materials (CNBM) for the delivery of several of its thin-film PV coating systems.
The deposition equipment provider from Dresden signed a deal at last weeks SNEC exhibition, and will gradually deliver its machinery to CNBM over the next two years.
Von Ardennes coating systems will be installed at two 300 MW plants in the Chinese provinces of Anhui and Jiangsu. A third deliver will wing its way to Chengdu, in the province of Sichuan, where CNBM has a 100 MW CdTe solar module fab.
This deal comes on the heels of a similarly large supply agreement between CNBM and German tooling producer Singulus, which earlier this week finalized a 110 million CIGS module production machine supply deal with the company.
CNBM is a state-owned enterprise that has recently announced plans to build PV module factories in China with more than 15 GW of annual production capacity. Born as a building materials company, CNBM in 2014 acquired German CIGS manufacturer Avancis, which has brought its expertise to the Anhui CIGS fab, which will cover a total of 55,000 square meters once first phase is completed in 2017.
Eventually, CNBM hopes to expand its CIGS production facility in Anhui to 1.5 GW of capacity. The firm has also enlisted the supply expertise of German thin film laser systems developer LPKF in the past.
Popular content
This content is protected by copyright and may not be reused. If you want to cooperate with us and would like to reuse some of our content, please contact: editors@pv-magazine.com.
Share
By submitting this form you agree to pv magazine using your data for the purposes of publishing your comment.
Your personal data will only be disclosed or otherwise transmitted to third parties for the purposes of spam filtering or if this is necessary for technical maintenance of the website. Any other transfer to third parties will not take place unless this is justified on the basis of applicable data protection regulations or if pv magazine is legally obliged to do so.
You may revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future, in which case your personal data will be deleted immediately. Otherwise, your data will be deleted if pv magazine has processed your request or the purpose of data storage is fulfilled.
Further information on data privacy can be found in our Data Protection Policy.