Fab & Facilities

Europe will not be able to produce a “disruption” in the solar manufacturing industry, according to Peter Fath, CEO of RCT Solutions.

Shreeyashi Ojha reports on a European PV recycling venture looking to maximise the value of materials recovered from end-of-life modules.

China, the world’s largest PV market, is poised to lead sustainable solar module recycling and circular manufacturing, writes Huan Li.

PVMRC's Michael Müller writes for PV Tech Power on the solar industry’s goal of circularity as more plants reach the end of their lifecycle.

For the fourth year in a row, Kiwa PVEL’s 2026 Module Reliability Scorecard registered a record high in module test failures.

Chinese solar manufacturing major Trinasolar has received supply chain traceability certifications from the Solar Stewardship Initiative (SSI) for two of its manufacturing facilities in China.

The company has formally terminated its originally planned 15GW ingot pulling and PV cell manufacturing project, redirecting its resources to the more promising lithium battery silicon-carbon anode material sector.

We spoke to Johannes Bernreuter about what Daqo New Energy's remarkable 88% sales drop in Q1 2026 means for the polysilicon industry.

US solar PV and energy storage system component manufacturer, Shoals, has opened a new manufacturing facility in Portland, Tennessee.

Germany's Fraunhofer ISE has opened a new lab to support the commercialisation of perovskite-silicon PV technology.