Production equipment order cancellations and push-outs by solar manufacturers during 2012 exceeded US$3 billion by the end of third-quarter 2012, according to NPD Solarbuzz. This has resulted in a significant reduction in order backlogs ...
Tags: PV solar equipment, Production equipment order, solar equipment
Giga Solar Materials Corp. will add production lines at its photovoltaic conductive-paste plant in the Southern Taiwan Science Park to cope with booming orders from solar-energy equipment manufacturers. Industry executives pointed out ...
Sharp plans to withdraw solar panel production in EU and US Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Friday 28 September 2012]Japan-based Sharp plans to cut solar panel production in Europe and the US.The firm plans to gather resources ...
Tags: Sharp, solar panel production, Asia markets, corporate restructuring
Solar manufacturers called on European Union regulators Tuesday to expand an investigation into China because of concerns that it unfairly subsidizes its clean energy industry. The complaint is the second by EU ProSun,a group ...
Tags: EU Solar Bloc, EU ProSun, EU regulators, antidumping investigation
Chinese solar companies have begun a round of belt-tightening as they struggle to maintain operations and pay down looming debt obligations,but layoffs might impede their ability to build market share if global demand for solar-powered ...
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Henkel announced that its Aquence Co-Cure technology has been selected for use by GreenVolts, Inc. For its higher-performing, lower cost protection against corrosion and UV-damage in the solar industry. GreenVolts, provider of the ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque,NM,USA,which makes components,subsystems and systems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets,recently achieved its 100th successful satellite launch and deployment with primary power supplied by its solar ...
Emcore PV cells rack up 100th satellite deployment 12 Jul 2012 High-end solar cell maker says another 120 Emcore-powered satellites are already under contract. Satellite power The one-hundredth satellite to generate its primary power ...
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Chemicals giant files complaint in Oregon court accusing companies of infringing patent awarded earlier this year. Who's shooting at SolarWorld? DuPont,the chemicals company that supplies a huge proportion of the conductive paste ...
The large turbulences in the solar market have caused abnormal conditions in the industry.The contract price of polysilicon has reached an all-time low,nearly as low as the spot prices.Solar equipment firms have been forced to engage in ...
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Due to the continued poor market environment,and the resultant strained financing situation,merchandise credit insurance companies have informed Centrotherm,a Germany-based solar equipment firm,that they will no longer insure merchandise ...
Tags: Centrotherm, Credit Line, solar equipment, PV
Limited funds and lack of capacity expansion plans plague solar equipment sector Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Monday 18 June 2012] On June 13,the world's second largest solar equipment firm,Germany-based Centrotherm,issued a ...
Tags: Applied Materials, Centrotherm, Tokyo Electron, solar equipment
The German Machinery & Plant Manufacturers Association (VDMA) runs a Platform for Photovoltaic (PV) Equipment which will be supporting solarpeq – International Trade Fair for Solar Equipment – taking place in Düsseldorf in ...
During China's 12th Five Year Plan period (2011-2015), solar PV will be the fastest growing renewable energy. In 2010 solar PV system installations were only 822MWp but the price of solar products has been decreasing rapidly in recent ...
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Chinese solar-equipment makers said tariffs sought by U.S. competitors would make it harder to expand the use of renewable energy. China, the U.S. and other countries are all encouraging use of alternative energy sources, driving costs ...
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