Meyer Burger wins CHF40 million wire saw order from SolarWorld

Meyer Burger Technology Ltd. has received an order for delivery of wire saws to the value of CHF40 million from SolarWorld. The wire saws will be shipped from the second quarter of 2009 onwards until the end of 2010. SolarWorld will use the high-tech wafer slicing tools in the expansion of its wafer fab in Freiburg, Germany, which it plans to expand to approximately 500MW by the end of 2010.

This is the second large tool order received by Meyer Burger Ltd, a member of the Meyer Burger Group, since December 2008, when it announced an order for wire and cropping saws from Wacker Schott Solar GmbH.

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