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Something truly new

You can try to succeed by making a better version of your competitors’ product, or you can try to do something completely new. NexWafe has chosen the second path. It is developing plans to manufacture wafers for high-efficiency solar cells in Bitterfeld, Germany, that are produced more sustainably and at lower cost than any other products available today.

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Michael Fuhs

12 Oct 2020

Image: NexWafe

It is often said that Europe is a technological leader, but that its leadership, unfortunately, does not translate into competitive mass production. If Frank Siebke can have his way, that will be about to change. Siebke is the co-founder of NexWafe, a company with a laboratory housing a colossal furnace that produces wafers for silicon …

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