c-si manufacturing

November 13, 2015
Major semiconductor equipment manufacturer Applied Materials is continuing to disengage from the solar equipment market after previously announcing its exit from Precision Wafering Systems (PWS) wire saw business, headquartered in Switzerland and stop development on its ‘Solion’ ion implant product, based in the US.
November 12, 2015
Updated: Major PV energy provider SunPower is to ramp Cogenra Solar’s module technology to 2GW by 2020 and only a further 800MW of its ‘Maxeon’ solar cell technology at its new facility, Fab 5 that it expects to ramp in early 2019.
November 12, 2015
Major PV energy provider SunPower has provided updated guidance for 2016 ahead of its annual analyst day event.
November 12, 2015
PV manufacturer Zhongli Talesun has become the first of a wave of Chinese firms planning to establish manufacturing operations in Thailand to begin production in the Southeast Asian country.
November 10, 2015
PV furnace equipment specialist Tempress Systems a subsidiary of Amtech Systems has said it has won an order from a new customer in Taiwan, a repeat order from an existing Taiwanese customer and installed approximately 800MW of its next-generation diffusion systems at a leading Chinese solar cell and module manufacturer.
November 10, 2015
'Silicon Module Super League' member Canadian Solar is to allocate around US$401 million in capital expenditures through the end of 2016 to significantly increase in-house wafer, cell and module production capacity and locate new plants in multiple countries.
November 10, 2015
Major merchant solar cell producer Gintech Energy Corp reported a 0.6% increase in sales for the month of October 2015.
November 10, 2015
Taiwan-based wafer producer, Sino-American Silicon (SAS), has reported sales in October 2015 of NT$2,335 million (US$71.3 million), down 5.59% on the previous month.
November 9, 2015
Market research firm IHS has forecasted a slowdown in global solar PV demand growth in 2016 but the market is expected to reach around 65.5GW, compared to 58.7GW forecasted for 2015.
November 9, 2015
Leading PV manufacturer Trina Solar has set a new world record conversion efficiency for p-type multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) solar cells.

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