ARISE PV plant in Germany works around the clock
2008-07-22 02:36 ET - News Release
Mr. Bart Tichelman reports
ARISE TECHNOLOGIES' PV CELL PLANT IN GERMANY STARTS 24/7 MANUFACTURING
ARISE Technologies Corp.'s new PV (photovoltaic) cell manufacturing plant in Bischofswerda, Germany, has started full production by manufacturing 24 hours a day, seven days per week.
"With the successful completion of the site acceptance tests for line 1, we are ramping up our production levels to meet our customers' requirement for PV cells. This is another milestone for ARISE in our path toward becoming a leading supplier of PV cells for the solar energy industry," said Bart Tichelman, president and chief executive officer.
"We are achieving the targeted level of 15.0-per-cent average PV cell efficiency with a peak efficiency of 15.7 per cent, as well as our targets for manufacturing yield and throughput. We were pleased to present our equipment supplier (OTB Solar BV of Eindhoven, the Netherlands) with the acceptance letter certifying that it has met our specifications. We appreciate the efforts that they and our management team and staff at the plant have made to enable us to meet our rigorous requirements. In only a few months, we have progressed from producing our first PV cell in mid-April to where we have been able to move to 24/7 production," Mr. Tichelman said.
"As previously announced, our customers are continuing their testing of the PV cells that we shipped to them for that purpose," Mr. Tichelman continued. "We remain in close communication with them and we are pleased with the feedback."
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