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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.

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.

Founded in 1984, Datapaq, a Fluke company, has joined Ircon and Raytek as Global Experts in Temperature Measurement & Profiling. Datapaq manufactures in-process temperature profiling systems that provide key information on the effectiveness of industrial heating processes. Using the most advanced and tested techniques for accurately gathering and storing information, Datapaq has created industry specific standards to analyze, synthesize and report information in a precise and succinct manner.

The Linde Group is a world leader in industrial gases and engineering with around 50,000 employees working in 100 countries worldwide.  In the clean energy field, with its unique technologies, capability and global footprint, Linde is at the forefront of the emerging hydrogen economy, active in CO₂ capture & storage, and leading the development of innovative waste-to-energy schemes.

Roth & Rau was founded in 1990 as a surface coating processes company. For almost 10 years, Roth & Rau has been operating in the division of photovoltaics and is one of the worldwide leading providers of production equipment for the manufacture of crystalline silicon solar cells. The company produces systems for solar cells' antireflective coating.