Due to strong demand for its solar modules, Germany’s Sunfilm AG has revealed that it has awarded Applied Materials Inc. a contract for a second Applied SunFab™ Thin Film Line, to be installed next to the company’s first line in Grossroehrsdorf, near Dresden, Germany.
Sunfilm’s first Applied SunFab Line is expected to begin initial production runs this July, with the second line scheduled for start up approximately one year later. This will bring Sunfilm’s annual capacity at the site to over 120MWp.
Back in September 2007, it was announced that Air Liquide had won a 10-year contract to supply Sunfilm with industrial and specialty gases, including nitrogen, hydrogen and helium at its first major thin-film solar plant in Grossrohrsdof.
The contract, for which financial terms were not disclosed, came under Air Liquide’s ALUX turnkey specialty gas solutions for the solar industry that includes the supply and management of provision of nitrogen, hydrogen, silane, NF3 (nitrogen trifluoride) and helium. As part of the deal, the French industrial gases giant would construct a nitrogen on-site production unit and all the facilities required to manage bulk specialty gases containers directly on the site.
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