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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.

Docter Optics is the world's leading company for molded optical glass components optical glass projection lenses (e.g. for automotive headlights). Docter Optics produces molded custom-designed secondary concentrators and other optical components for leading players in this new market.

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.

Komax is a global supplier of module manufacturing machines. By investing continuously, Komax has expanded its product portfolio significantly in recent years. Today the company covers the entire spectrum from individual processes such as stringing through to integration of entire production lines. We offer professional service back-up in over 50 countries and our many years of experience in photovoltaics have made Komax a strong and reliable partner for the development and industrial optimization of customer-specific processes.

The company’s key competence in photovoltaics lies in thin-film technologies, which are used to manufacture different kinds of solar cells. VON ARDENNE supplies highly-productive in-line coaters in all customary sizes for TCO-layers, backside contacts and semiconductor layers based on CIS or CdTe.