Eurotron receives major back-contact equipment order from China

May 7, 2019
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Eurotron said that the order for full-sized industrial scale production lines for back-contact PV modules would enable Sunport to produce 6.6 million modules per-annum, totalling around 2GW of production. Image: Eurotron

Back-contact module manufacturing equipment supplier Eurotron has received a major order from China-based PV module manufacturer Sunport Power, based in Wuxi, China. 

Eurotron said that the order for full-sized industrial scale production lines for back-contact PV modules would enable Sunport to produce 6.6 million modules per-annum, totalling around 2GW of production. Sunport had been an existing customer of Eurotron’s.

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Eurotron also noted that it had cumulative equipment sales for back-contact PV modules totalling 3GW.

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