Meyer Burger has received a strategic contract with a total value of about CHF 29 million from EcoSolifer Ltd., a European solar photovoltaic (PV) developer and manufacturer of high performance solar technology.

The first order out of this contract is for CHF 23 million and includes the delivery and installation of a high efficiency heterojunction (HJT) solar cell manufacturing line, making EcoSolifer the first major industrial heterojunction cell producer worldwide, Meyer Burger announces.

Delivery and installation of the heterojunction cell line technology to EcoSolifer’s European manufacturing site in Csorna, Hungary is scheduled for late 2015. EcoSolifer plans to begin industrial manufacturing in the first quarter 2016. The initial production line has an annual capacity of 90-100 MW. EcoSolifer intends to reach a half gigawatt of cell production capacity in the short term in order to leverage its scale of production and be extremely competitive with its European manufacturing facility.

The order also includes Meyer Burger’s integrated cell performance measurement and sorting technology and a “FabEagle” MES modular software system for scaleable production management.

The complete contract encompasses an option for the future delivery of Meyer Burger’s innovative SmartWire Connection Technology (SWCT) which, in strategic partnership with manufacturers of SWCT modules, enables EcoSolifer to take a leading role in the PV market in Europe and other key markets for high efficiency solar modules while maintaining its opportunity for opening different new markets.
EcoSolifer CEO Dr Ákos Haidegger sees mutual benefits in the cooperation stating that “the combination of Meyer Burger’s high efficiency bifacial heterojunction cell technology with EcoSolifer’s broad know-how in PV development and industrial scale production capability could trigger an extraordinarily dynamic impulse and influence the entire solar market.”

Source: SolarServer