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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.

3S Swiss Solar Systems was established in June 2002 as Swiss Sustainable Systems AG. The company’s purpose when founded was to produce top quality solar modules for integration in building construction. During the first year of trading, management recognised that the substantial specialist knowledge it had available on the manufacturing of solar modules could also be applied to the development of production lines. On this background, the company started work on the development of production lines for solar module manufacture, opening up a new business area.

acp-IT merges all its expertise knowledge about manufacturing processes and state of the art IT technologies in the development and implementation  of  the InFrame Synapse MES software platform family. Our goal  is to provide a plug and play MES solution, which has been intensively tested by simulation and emulation of the virtual fab-model prior to implementation.

The modular MES InFrame Synapse offers our customers a solution, which grows with their needs and experience to accelerate the manufacturing learning curve. The range is spanned from a "Listening" tracking & tracing MES to a „Controlling" MES with full functionality.

The integrated workflow engine enables acp-IT to reduce project implementation times and costs and helps to perfectly adapt to the customers' needs. InFrame Synapse provides high scalability and reliability to support all photovoltaic manufacturing areas.

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.

AIS Automation Dresden with its more than 150 employees is a high-performance, innovative software house and a long-term reliable partner for its customers since 1990. AIS is active in the business fields Manufacturing Automation/System Integration, Control Systems/Host Interfaces, Process Automation/System Control and Control Systems/Software Solutions for Railway Technology. New innovative markets such as MES for the solar industry are the basis for continual and prosperous company growth. Many years of experience in the field of complex control systems and production oriented IT solutions are the basis for versatile and demanding software solutions in the semiconductor, photovoltaic, automotive, pharmaceutical and railway industries.

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.

ASYS SOLAR specializes in the metallization of solar cells and supplies single, dual and triple lane production lines. Offering throughput numbers of 1.200 to 4.600 cells per hour the new "ULTRAline" metallization line meets all customer demands at an outstanding value for money. The world's leading companies in the solar industry rely on the ASYS Group's uncompromising pursuit of quality. Our range of services includes automatic screen printers, optical breakage and automatic post-print inspection systems, drying furnaces, buffer systems, handling systems, laser edge isolation, cooling stations, cell testers and cell sorters. By the optimized print repeatability of +/- 12.5 µm at 6sigma it is furthermore possible to realize selective emitter or double front print applications. The new rotary table printer XSR1 offers the possibility to fill back side contacts in one print step.

Atlas, the world leader in material durability testing as it relates to weathering, is excited to help companies in the solar industry meet their product warranty and efficiency claims.

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.

Bonfiglioli is a global leader in the design and manufacture of systems and products for power control and power transmission applications. It is a multinational organization with a worldwide network made up of 15 branches, 10 manufacturing and assembly plants as well as a comprehensive number of distributors located in Europe and Overseas. All supported by a full range of pre- and post-sales services, to guarantee reliable, top quality products and short lead times. Competence, technological innovation and high quality standards are, in fact, the Company primary objective.