Meyer Burger Technology Ltd (SIX Swiss Exchange: MBTN) today announced the successful signing of a strategically important contract for the delivery and provisioning of a fully integrated high efficiency heterojunction cell line in Europe including comprehensive customer training and support services as well as joint development activities with an option for the later delivery of SmartWire Connection Technology.
Following an extensive six-month technical evaluation process, EcoSolifer has selected the innovative, industrialised PV technologies from Meyer Burger with the goal of achieving a clear cost and performance differentiation in comparison to existing manufacturers in the PV market. EcoSolifer CEO Dr Ákos Haidegger sees mutual benefits in the cooperation stating, “the combination of Meyer Burger’s high efficiency bifacial heterojunction cell technology with EcoSolifer’s broad know-how in PV development and industrial scale production capability could trigger an extraordinarily dynamic impulse and influence the entire solar market.” EcoSolifer plans to reach a half gigawatt of cell production capacity in the short term in order to leverage its scale of production and be extremely competitive with its European manufacturing facility. Meyer Burger CEO Peter Pauli comments “with our future-oriented integrated photovoltaic technologies, Meyer Burger is ideally positioned to support EcoSolifer in combating the shortage of high efficiency solar modules in the photovoltaic market. This is the beginning of important ongoing joint development in the European and global markets.”
Delivery and installation of the heterojunction cell line technology to EcoSolifer’s European manufacturing site in Csorna, Hungary is scheduled for late 2015. EcoSolifer plans to begin industrial manufacturing in the first quarter 2016. The initial production line has an annual capacity of 90-100 MW.
Contact:
Werner Buchholz Head of Corporate Communications Tel: +41 33 221 25 06 werner.buchholz@meyerburger.com
Ingrid Carstensen
Corporate Communications
Phone +41 (0)33 221 28 34
ingrid.carstensen@meyerburger.com
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