Tool Order: Meyer Burger confirms SmartWire deal with Polish start-up Hanplast

June 30, 2014
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Major PV equipment supplier, Meyer Burger has officially confirmed the recent deal, exclusively revealed by PV Tech to supply plastic mouldings engineering firm, Hanplast with a complete turnkey ‘SmartWire’ module assembly line. Financial details were not disclosed.

Meyer Burger noted that it had successfully concluded a strategic ‘Preferred Supplier’ contract for the delivery and installation of the ‘SmartWire’ module assembly line to the Polish firm which has built a dedicated production plant at the Bydgoszcz Technology Park in Poland.

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The major PV equipment supplier noted that the module assembly line would have an annual production capacity of 80MW, with delivery of the systems as well as the start of production by Hanplast in the first half of 2015.

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