Asia-based EVA encapsulant material producer HIUV New Materials said it successfully developed an encapsulant for N-type cell based PV modules that limits PID (Potential Induced Degradation).
The company noted that its new EVA encapsulant, P502MR had been tested with by a leading PV module manufacturer with good results and that it had completed tool installation to produce the material in a JV with Jinglong in China with a nameplate capacity equivalent to 1.5G. Production is expected to ramp in the third quarter of 2016.
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HIUV had previously said it was ramping up capacity to 117 million m2 per year, in order serve the equivalent of 9GW of PV module production.
