Featured in Women at work – 08-2019

In conversation: Production ambitions

While China hosts the lion’s share of production capacity for solar modules, many other parts of the world harbor the ambition to build manufacturing industries of their own. Italy’s Ecoprogetti is building production lines all over the world in 2019, and pv magazine had the chance to catch up with the family-owned company’s CEO Laura Sartore, who sees India and the Middle East as the key markets for the PV production equipment business.

By

Mark Hutchins

20 Aug 2019

Laura Sartore: “The Middle East and Africa will be the next big regions for module manufacturing” | Image: Ecoprogetti

pv magazine: Broadly speaking, how do you see the market for PV manufacturing equipment in 2019?Laura Sartore: We see a very stable market. We are very international, and we see many new countries starting with module production facilities. In Africa and the Middle East, particularly, but we also see demand for new lines in India, …

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