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Oerlikon Announces Deals with CMC Magnetics & Flextronics

July 16, 2008 | 2 Comments

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San Francisco, United States [RenewableEnergyWorld.com] Sunwell, a wholly owned subsidiary of CMC Magnetics announced that it has ordered another two end-to-end thin film silicon production lines from Oerlikon Solar. One 60-megawatt (MW) line will be delivered to the existing Sunwell production facility in Taiwan. The second line will have a 120-MW capacity and will be shipped to a new site currently under construction.

"The facility in Singapore and the partnership with Flextronics will extend our global presence in the rapidly growing solar market. This will extend our lead in terms of production capability, delivery time and cost."

-- Dr. Uwe Krueger, CEO, Oerlikon

Both lines use Oerlikon's micromorph tandem cell technology, that, according to Oerlikon Solar can raise module efficiency by up to 50 percent. It is CMC’s goal to reach an annual production output of one gigawatt as the demand for thin film solar panels continues its unprecedented growth, the company said.

“With this order CMC signals a long term strategy to continue with Oerlikon's leading proprietary micromorph tandem cell technology. This sets the stage for an aggressive roadmap to increase efficiency allowing them to head towards grid parity in the near future,” said Jeannine Sargent, CEO of Oerlikon Solar.

In a related story, Oerlikon Solar announced an agreement with Flextronics at the opening of Intersolar North America in San Francisco, California. Intersolar North America runs from July 15-17 at Mascone Center in San Francisco. Flextronics, an electronics manufacturing services (EMS) provider, will support Oerlikon Solar’s scalability requirements for global production capacity allowing the execution of more simultaneous projects in multiple geographies, including the company's recently announced facility in Singapore.

“The facility in Singapore and the partnership with Flextronics will extend our global presence in the rapidly growing solar market. This will extend our lead in terms of production capability, delivery time and cost,” said Dr. Uwe Krüger, CEO of Oerlikon group.

The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) is spearheading the development of what could be a world class solar industry cluster in Singapore.

"Oerlikon's decision in choosing Singapore as its Asia manufacturing and R&D hub clearly demonstrates our rapid progress in developing the solar industry. This project is a significant boost to this growing sector, and shows how our existing strengths in manufacturing, particularly in precision engineering, have evolved to support exciting new areas,” said Ko Kheng Hwa, Managing Director of Singapore Economic Development Board.

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john-lynch-71465

July 18, 2008

The implementation of economically sound solar panel manufacturing is encouraging to see. The pre-sales technology presentations and the relatively new support coming from all over the United States political landscape is promising as we have so much potential and so much need for self reliant, clean energy sources. I am personnally looking forward to becoming a messenger and an implementor of vastly increased solar panel manufacturing and implementation here in the USA and perhaps training abroad soon in order support the oncoming rush for capacity.
jlynch@fineprop.com Desert Professional Consulting, Inc

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quincy-holloway-74610

July 18, 2008

Great to hear that Oerlikon's MTC is being placed into production! Their process appears to be one of the more promising innovations in solar module development. Looking forward to seeing the output in the marketplace.

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