Applied Nanotech and YHCC open 1,000 ton capacity PV metallic inks plant in China

January 3, 2013
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Materials IP developer, Applied Nanotech has opened a proprietary PV metallic inks and paste production plant in China with JV partner Sichuan Anxian Yinhe Constructional & Chemical Group Co., Ltd (YHCC), an electronic paste manufacturer focused on the PV industry.

Applied Nanotech has previously teamed with c-Si solar cell and module start-up, Solexel, which is developing cells using its proprietary aluminium metallization material.

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The materials manufacturing plant is said to be operated by Yinhe Starsource Technology Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of YHCC and has a volume capacity of over 1,000 tons of aluminium and silver inks and pastes per annum.

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