Featured in Store for more – 05-2012

Logistically speaking

Logistics: From raw polysilicon to power generators: it takes a tremendous amount of effort to produce a high-quality PV module. Thus, it is rather embarrassing when it reaches the end customer cracked, scratched, broken or with the invisible enemy, micro-cracks due to bad logistics.
By
Shamsiah Ali Oettinger

When the module left the factory, it was in good condition. But when it reached the hands of the customer who wanted to install it on his rooftop, he saw that the sunny side up looked a little battered from the long journey. Whether it came by ship or was driven to the destination in …

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