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ErSol opens second production
line
On April 28
Jürgen Hartwig, CEO of the solar cell production company ErSol of
Erfurt, Germany, gave himself the biggest present at his 60th birthday
party by opening the company’s second production line.
The first
cell line was installed in 1997 and consisted of the manufacturing
equipment which Hartwig bought from ASE when they closed their
manufacturing line in Wedel, Germany. Hartwig had planned to produce
1.5 million polycrystalline cells with this first line with a total
power of 2 MW a year but faced lots of difficulties. In fact he was
not able to start operation before the beginning of this year. In the
meantime, the problems seem to have been solved and Hartwig is proud
to have the first 1 MW produced.
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The
first cell line of ErSol was installed in 1997
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While the first
line produces 100 × 100 mm cells and a maximum of 80,000 cells per
month, the second line will produce 125 × 125 mm cells and up to
200,000 cells per month, or one cell every three seconds. By end of
this year Hartwig plans to produce 1.2 million cells with a total
power of 2.3 MW with the new line. According to CEO Jürgen Hartwig,
the efficiency should be 12 percent. For both lines together he plans
to produce a total of 3 MW this year and 7 MW in 2001. But whoever is
thinking of ordering now may become disappointed. »We’re completely
sold out,« Hartwig says.
www.ersol.de
Anne
Kreutzmann
© PHOTON
International, March 2000
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