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2BG Srl is located in northeast Italy, near to Venice. Thanks to the company's 10 years' experience in the photovoltaic equipment branch, our firm offers products and integrated services all over the world: from standalone PV machine planning and realization to the development of solar module production equipment. The remarkable know-how is employed for proposing “on-demand” solutions, according to the different inquiries, assuring high automation levels and performance. Quality and reliability for each supply are warranted by the (certified and established in the market) raw materials selection and through the deep knowledge of the product trials.

Adept Technology, Inc. is a global, leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics systems and services. Adept systems provide unmatched performance and economic value throughout the production lifecycle, enabling customers to achieve precision, quality and productivity in their assembly, handling and packaging processes.

Alcatel Vacuum Technology is a leading global supplier of advanced vacuum solutions for semiconductors, flat panel displays, LEDs and solar cells manufacturing. With more than forty years of vacuum experience, and a long track record for the most advanced applications of the Semiconductor and FPD Industries, Alcatel offers to solar manufacturing a complete range of highly competitive vacuum products addressing crystalline silicon and emerging thin film applications requirements.

Alconox, Inc. manufactures a full line of critical cleaning detergents for a wide range of hard surface cleaning applications. Our detergents are sold throughout the United States and in over 40 countries worldwide. Please click here to receive our free whitepaper on The Significance of Critical Cleaning for Solar Module Fabrication.

By applying our four decades of thin film on silicon experience to the manufacturing of solar modules, the total volume of solar panels manufactured each year can be vastly increased.

Atlumin engineers and manufactures materials for renewable energy, specifically for thin-film solar manufacturers. We help solar module manufacturers improve their overall efficiency - supply chain, process, ramp-up, device, and administration - to reduce the cost of renewable energy, thereby accelerating adoption.

Camstar is a leading innovator of software solutions that advance product quality in the manufacturing industry, enabling its customers to deliver the highest quality products on time, the first time, every time. The Camstar Enterprise Platform advances product quality throughout the product lifecycle, from design to planning to supply to manufacturing to customer product experience – all in a closed-loop learning process that allows future products to be designed better and manufacturing processes to be leaner and more efficient. Camstar is the largest in its market, including solutions for manufacturing execution, process planning, enterprise quality management, and manufacturing intelligence.

Established in 1987, Chemical Safety Technology (CST) launched design and manufacturing of cost effective chemical and slurry handling systems for the Semiconductor and Disk Manufacturing industries.  Since then, the California-based company has followed its initial successes with expanded capabilities, designing and manufacturing a variety of custom equipment for our customers’ unique applications.

Edwards is the world's leading provider of innovative vacuum and exhaust gas treatment products for the Solar, Flat Panel, and Semiconductor Industries. Our global install base is a testimonial of solar manufacturers all over the world relying upon Edwards' leading edge products, technological expertise, and global service support to achieve lowest cost per watt.

Evans Analytical Group (EAG), with its wide array of analysis techniques and world-class scientists, can provide fast, state-of-the-art measurements that can give you the insight you need to improve your products and manufacturing processes. EAG serves photovoltaic companies worldwide by providing advanced materials characterization services to help improve knowledge of both materials and processes.

EAG serves companies working in the following areas and with the following technologies: raw materials suppliers; suppliers, processors and users of single crystal silicon, multicrystalline silicon and polysilicon; thin film users and producers, including amorphous silicon, CdTe, CIGS and III-V structures.

Eyelit’s mission has always been to deliver and support with world-class customer service, easy-to-use, high-quality manufacturing management solutions that increase productivity and worker performance and the bottom line for our customers. Originally an integration software provider, Eyelit leveraged deep production experience to develop an innovative technology that enabled any legacy MES to quickly connect to other factory and ERP systems.

KLA-Tencor Corporation is the world’s leading supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related nanoelectronics industries, as well as the worldwide market leader for metrology and inspection solutions in the photovoltaic and back-end semiconductor markets. The current KLA-Tencor’s PV portfolio consists of both surface profilers and solar wafer and cell inspection modules which are integrated in different stages of the solar wafer and cell production lines to increase yield and lower production costs.

P.Energy S.p.A. is the leader in manufacturing equipment for PV module assembly and test processes. Thanks to its 10 years' experience in the field of photovoltaics and its thorough knowledge of state-of-the-art technologies, P.Energy S.p.A. supplies turnkey plant solutions and all services for the production of photovoltaic modules, including: IEC/UL certification, training and know-how, recruitment of raw materials.

P.Energy has a worldwide network for sales and after-sales assistance in Europe, USA, the Middle East, India, Taiwan, Singapore and Korea. Our target is to foster long-term partnerships and to create value for our customers.