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‘I think the market is ready for the next step’

As part of a billion-euro acquisition deal with Germany’s Covestro, DSM will soon move away from the solar glass coatings market. For the materials giant’s Advanced Solar business, this means a renewed focus on the backsheet market. Here it sees growing demand for back-contact technologies and the conductive backsheets that go with them and has recently launched an updated version of its Endurance polymer backsheet. pv magazine recently caught up with Pascal de Sain, VP at DSM Advanced Solar, for an update.

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Mark Hutchins

07 Dec 2020

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What was behind DSM’s decision to exit the coatings market?DSM decided to sell its resins and functional materials business. That is a sizable business, representing around 1,800 people. And with that a lot of the backend knowledge for our coatings business – the technology base, the experienced staff – they were all going to Covestro.We …

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