REC Group selling off wafer and cell equipment from closed facilities in Norway

  •   All equipment and components were said to be available for sale by private negotiation.
    All equipment and components were said to be available for sale by private negotiation.

As part of REC Group's previously announced closure of certain wafer and cell production plants in Norway, a sale of the equipment from three plants is to be organized by surplus asset management firm, GoIndustry Dovebid. All equipment and components were said to available for sale by private negotiation.

According to GoIndustry Dovebid, REC’s former solar wafer manufacturing plants, Heroya I & II and Glomfjord, have a capacity of 775MW and contain Generation 4 state-of-the-art equipment from Meyer Burger, HCT, ALD and GT Solar, amongst others.

The 200MW solar cell manufacturing plant in Narvik is said to be equipped with Schmid, Roth & Rau, SierraTherm and ASYS equipment.

Facilities support equipment is also up for grabs, which includes a De-ionised Water Plant, Carrier Chillers, Atlas Copco air compressors and a large inventory of components.
 

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