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Meyer Burger Technology Ltd is one of the world’s leading providers of innovative systems and production lines for photovoltaics in the solar industry. The globally active technology group employs more than 1000 people across three continents. Meyer Burger offers its customers comprehensive solutions and complimentary technologies along the entire value chain including wafering, cells, modules and integrated solar systems.
Pfeiffer Vacuum – a name that stands for innovative solutions, high technology, dependable products and first-class service. For more than 120 years, we have been setting standards in vacuum technology with these attributes. One very special milestone was the invention of the turbopump at our Company more than 50 years ago. Thanks to our know-how, we continue to be the technology and world market leader in this field. To no small degree, this also manifests itself in our extremely high profitability.
Founded at the end of 1999, Q-Cells SE began with the production of silicon solar cells in the summer of 2001 with only 19 employees. By the end of 2007, approximately 1700 people were employed at Q-Cells; the company is now the largest solar cell manufacturer in the world. In order to strengthen our position in the global marketplace, we will continue to expand our production site in Bitterfeld-Wolfen/Germany and start the construction of our new Malaysian production facility. Alongside the monocrystalline and polycrystalline core business, we use a wide range of technologies to develop and produce thin-film modules.
SEMI is the global industry association serving the manufacturing supply chains for the microelectronic, display and photovoltaic industries. SEMI member companies are the engine of the future, enabling smarter, faster and more economical products that improve our lives. Since 1970, SEMI has been committed to helping members grow more profitably, create new markets and meet common industry challenges. SEMI is engaged in nearly all of the major technology regions of the world and maintains offices in Austin, Beijing, Brussels, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. Primary activities include conferences and trade shows, international standards development, public policy, market research, workforce development, environmental, health and safety (EHS) other industries.
SENTECH Instruments develops, manufactures and sells advanced quality instrumentation for Thin Film Metrology (reflectometer, ellipsometer, spectroscopic ellipsometer) and Plasma Process Technology (plasma etcher, plasma deposition systems).
Sharp Corporation started solar cell research and development in 1959 and established the Central Research Laboratories in 1961 for work on electronic equipment and photovoltaic products. By 1963, Sharp had begun mass-producing solar cells. Since then they have emerged as one of the largest producer’s of photovoltaic components. Sharp has manufacturing bases located throughout the world including Japan, U.S. and U.K.
The company’s key competence in photovoltaics lies in thin-film technologies, which are used to manufacture different kinds of solar cells. VON ARDENNE supplies highly-productive in-line coaters in all customary sizes for TCO-layers, backside contacts and semiconductor layers based on CIS or CdTe.