Meyer Burger extends their provision of fully integrated wafer manufacturing systems with Pevafersa a leading Spanish Solar System Manufacturer. Besides the entire equipment for a fully integrated wafer manufacturing line Meyer Burger provides the planning & engineering of the infrastructure needed. The implementation is divided into three phases over the course of the next three years. In the first phase Pevafersa is targeting a annual production capacity of 60 megawatt and in additional phases up to 240 Megawatt. First shipment of cutting, slicing and wafer handling equipment is planned for first quarter in 2009. The contract value for the first shipment amounts over Euro 29 million.
Meyer Burger Technology AG (SWX Swiss Exchange: MBTN) announced today that the Meyer Burger Group, will act as a General contractor to provide a fully integrated wafer production plant for Pevafersa a leading Spanish Solar System Manufacturer Over a period of three years Pevafersa Group is planning to expand their production capacity up to 240 megawatt. Meyer Burger will provide the entire equipment for a fully integrated and automated wafer manufacturing line including the planning & engineering of the needed infrastructure. The implementation of the first 60 megawatt is scheduled for April 2009 and amounts over Euro 29 millions including manufacturing equipment such as Band-, Cropping-, Wire- Saws, a fully integrated multicrystalline brick line, wafer pre- and final-cleaning and wafer separation and quality inspection systems. The shipments of the equipment with an accumulated production capacity of 240 megawatt for the following phase two and three is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2010.
Pevafersa is a leading Solar System Manufacturer based in Toro (Zamora) in Spain and founded by the charismatic Vincente Fernández Manso. He started its business in a small garage with a great vision. Fernandez Manso has led the company to a leading Solar System supplier with over 400 employees and a net sales of Euro 260 millions. In the course of the development of his business he integrated the Solar Supply Chain with a cell line. With this order and the planned silicon feedstock production plant, Fernández Manso will integrate the full supply chain from silicon to installed solar systems.
“With the offering and their understanding of fully integrated wafer manufacturing system we are convinced to have found the right partner with leading technologies and experience to reach our challenging goals to expand our production capacity and technology” said Vicente Fernández Mnaso, CEO of Pevafersa
About Meyer Burger Technology Ltd
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Meyer Burger Technology Ltd is a leading and globally active technology group for innovative systems and processes for cutting and handling crystalline and other high-grade materials.
The machines, competences and technologies of the different companies in the group are used in the solar industry (photovoltaics), semi-conductor and optical industry. The thinnest wafers made from silicon, sapphire or other crystals are required in these three markets to manufacture solar modules, switching circuits or high-performance LEDs. The group’s core competences are made up of a whole range of production processes, machines and systems that are used within the value chain in the manufacture of high quality wafers. The comprehensive range of products is complemented by a worldwide service network with wear and tear parts, consumables, re-grooving service, process know-how, servicing, after-sales service, training and other services. As a globally active company, the group is represented in Europe, Asia and North America in the respective key markets.
Meyer Burger has its headquarters and the production facility of Meyer Burger Ltd in Switzerland, while the group companies, Meyer Burger Automation GmbH, Hennecke Systems GmbH and and AMB Apparate + Maschinenbau GmbH, have their headquarters and production facilities in Germany. The group also has subsidiaries and own service centres in Germany, Norway, China and Japan, which all are represented by its own staff on-site. In Taiwan and the USA, Meyer Burger works with independent sales and service partners that are part of Meyer Burger’s global service network. In other important countries the company relies on selected independent agents. Meyer Burger generated net sales of CHF 455 million in fiscal year 2008 and employed more than 630 staff worldwide as of year end 2008.
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