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Thin edge of a major wedge

Thin film production equipment: A Chinese manufacturer developing hundreds of megawatts of thin film manufacturing capacity is a big deal. This alone made the announcement from CNBM that it was placing large orders with European cadmium telluride (CdTe) and copper indium gallium selenium (CIGS) PV equipment suppliers at the 2016 SNEC trade show a significant one. But what do we know about the deal? pv magazine investigates.

By

Jonathan Gifford

17 Jun 2016

In recent years, thin film PV production equipment suppliers have found new orders thin on the ground. The pillars of the thin film module production industry, First Solar and Solar Frontier, have been decidedly conservative in their expansion plans since at least 2013. U.S. giant First Solar has pursued efficiency and throughput improvements with its …

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