Breaking the cycles of waste

The rush into the photovoltaic market has seen some companies rush in order to have working equipment for production and may not be aware of further cost saving potential within their tools and processes.

Typical cell manufacturing line with a capacity of 1800 cells/hr, suffers a loss of 500K to more than 2 million Euros each year due to cell and wafer breakage during production.

Ultrasonic Technologies and RUV Systems conducted an extensive research and production study proving that the RUV system will decrease production breakage by 21% and up to an extraordinary 88% reduction in cell and wafer breakage...

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Source: PV Magazine Solar

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