This month marks the 60th anniversary of Corning Incorporated's precision glass plant in Harrodsburg,Kentucky.It's a special occasion not only for the people who work at this storied facility,but for all of us at the company.The plant ...
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Architectural aluminium glazing systems specialist,Technal,has opened a new purpose-designed and highly sustainable headquarters in India featuring its Géode-MX curtain walling and brise soleil sun shading systems. The 4,000sqm ...
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At its Troisdorf location,Kuraray Europe GmbH is investing some EUR 20 million in a new production line for TROSIFOL films and a new warehouse.The construction of this fifth production line in Troisdorf will increase capacity in the ...
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Emerging markets should bring stability to the ailing solar industry, with up to 12 gigawatts of new photovoltaic capacity added in 2017 up from 1.6 GW in 2012, according to a new forecast from market analyst IHS. The study, which ...
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First Solar partners with Kiran and Mahindra on 50MWDC of projects in Rajasthan First Solar Inc of Tempe,AZ,USA,project developer Kiran Energy Solar Power Pvt Ltd of Mumbai,India and Mahindra Solar One Pvt Ltd(a joint venture between ...
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Sphelar Power Corpsssoration has successfully prototyped,with the Industrial Technology Center of Fukui Prefecture,an energy-harvesting textile where spherical solar cells(Sphelar cells)are interweaved. This result was delivered from an ...
The Dow Chemical Company of Midland, MI, USA has expanded the availability of its DOW POWERHOUSE Solar Shingle, a residential roofing system that protects a home (like a standard shingle) but also contains embedded thin-film copper indium ...
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Japan's Sharp Corp has achieved what is claimed to be record solar cell conversion efficiency(for research-level non-concentrator solar cells)of 37.7%using a triple-junction III-V compound semiconductor solar cell(in which three ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton,CO,USA,which manufactures lightweight thin-film photovoltaic modules based on copper indium gallium diselenide(CIGS)using flexible substrate materials,has introduced its EnerPlex Jumpr,a ...
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At the 2012 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society(MRS)in Boston at the beginning of December,Global Photonic Energy Corp(GPEC)of Medford Lakes,NJ,USA–a developer of a organic photovoltaic(OPV)technology that has research ...
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Taiwanese optoelectronics manufacturers from LED, photovoltaic, LCD, and opto-communications sectors, revealed relatively weak confidence in the industry’s outlook for Q4, according to a survey conducted by Photonics Industry ...
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One of the South West's greenest companies has won the 2012 region's Green Energy Installer of the Year Award. North Somerset-based Solarsense beat stiff competition to take the top award at a ceremony last night (20 Nov) hosted by the ...
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The latest World Bank's report calls governments for urgent measures to stop global warming. It recommends them to put more than US$ 1 trillion, which are now used as a subsidy for fossil fuel, for better use – in sustainable and ...
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PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) flat glass business announced that it can now manufacture heat-strengthened glass in thicknesses of less than 3 millimeters, which makes it among the first major glass manufacturers in North America to offer ...
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Tokyo-based subsidiary Solar Frontier – the world's largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has been selected by Aikawa Press Industry Co Ltd to supply modules for the ...
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