Centrotherm Photovoltaics AG | Germany | Production Equipment

Centrotherm Photovoltaics AG

Address:	Johannes-Schmid-Str.8, D-89143 Blaubeuren, Germany
Website:	www.centrotherm.de

Phone:	+49 7344 918-0
Fax:	+49 7344 918-8388
E-mail:	infocentrotherm.de

Number of Staff

1900

Equipment Types

DSS method

Wafer handling system, Resistivity inspector, Material properties analyser, Wafer vision inspector

Cell turn-key production line, Diffusion furnace, Cell PECVD , Drying furnace, Firing furnace

Panel turn-key production line

Thin-film panel turn-key production line, Thin film optical inspection system , Thin-film sputtering , Thin-film APCVD

Parent Company

Key Customers

Q-Cells, Solarworld, Sunways, STSIC, Motech, Suntech, Asia Silicon, Lu'an Group, Hyundai Heavy Industries

Additional info
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centrotherm photovoltaics is one of the world’s lea¬ding providers of technology and services for the photovoltaics industry. The Group commands an extensive, in-depth technology foundation at practically all steps of the photovoltaics value chain. Our product and service portfolio starts at the early stage of producing silicon as a raw material and ranges from the planning and engineering of polysilicon factories, on to production equipment and systems for the polysilicon, ingot and wafer production. Furthermore, we equip established solar companies as well as new entrants with turnkey solutions and key equipment for the manufacturing of solar cells and modules. We guarantee important performance parameters such as production capacity, efficiency, and on-time delivery for our turnkey lines.

Products
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Silicon & Wafer
centrotherm photovoltaics provides its customers with the full range of planning, technology and engineering services for the design and process optimization of polysilicon, ingot and wafer manufacturing.

Product range:

CVD Reactors
STC-TCS Converters
Vent Gas Recovery Units
Multi-Crystalline Ingot Furnaces and Crucible Charging Systems
Ingot Cropping and Brick Squaring Equipment

Solar cell & Module
Our core business is the development and sales of turnkey production lines for the manufacture of crystalline solar cells, including the full range of engineering and technological process services. We are now supplementing our service portfolio with module lines for crystalline module production.

Product range:

Diffusion and oxidation furnaces
PECVD systems
Drying and annealing furnaces
Laser systems

Thin film module
In the field of thin film technology, our portfolio covers the development and sales of turnkey production lines for CIGS thin film modules. The latter achieve an annual production capacity of 50 MWp depending on customer requirements, but are also available in clusters of up to 100 MWp.

Product range:

Vacuum plasma coating systems
Atmospheric pressure coating systems
Selenium systems

FlexLine Plus - Turnkey Solar Cell Production Line
Centrotherm offers Turnkey Lines for Solar Cell Production with guaranteed parameters such as throughput, efficieny, yield and project schedule.
We contiuously optimize our production lines and processes in order to increase the efficiency of solar cells, improve yield and production output and to make solar cell production more cost-effective.

Cell efficiency: > 18.4% (mono-Si), > 17.0% (multi-Si)
Implementation of new technologies into existing lines
R&D activities in all performance-relevant process steps
Proprietary inline inspection systems
High flexibility & optimized throughput scalability
Guarantees for:
Line throughput
Efficiency
Production yield
Project schedule

Scope of supply

Project management
Building and facility consulting
Supply of all production tools & design
Complete production automation
Installation | start-up | ramp-up
Cell design and technology transfer

FlexLine Plus – 120 MW Solar Cell Production Line

Multi-Crystalline Ingot Furnace
The centrotherm multi-crystalline ingot furnace is designed for the production of multi-crystalline ingots from polysilicon pieces by directional solidification based on the vertical gradient-freeze method. The multi-crystalline ingot furnace consists of a stainless steel vacuum vessel with integrated water cooling. It contains an electro-mechanical opening and closing mechanism and comes with an integrated crucible loading tool. For process control it is fully automated and includes two independent adjustable heating zones.

ingot weight up to 600 kg without feeding
optimized hot zone for jumbo sized crucibles of 880 mm x 880 mm x 420 mm
two independent adjustable heating zones and one integrated active cooling device for optimal process control
Integrated loading and unloading tool
full automation
Option: Advanced Crucible Charging System

Multi-Crystalline Ingot Furnace

CIGS Thin film module production line
centrotherm offers a CIGS thin film module production line that covers all process stages required to produce thin film modules. We offer drilling and edge seaming equipment for the preparation of substrates prior to module production as an option.
Our technology offers convenient scalability for mass production, combined with high module efficiency levels. Our partners/suppliers produce additional components for thin film module manufacturing according to our specifications that we integrate into coordinated production lines.

Module efficiency: 12% / 170 Wp @ 1.54 m²
Output 50/100 MWp (easily upgradeable)
Process technology with highest efficiency
R&D activities in all relevant process steps
Guarantees for:
Line output
Efficiency
Production yield

Products

Casting Furnace

Multi-Crystalline Ingot Furnace

Model No.	Multi-Crystalline Ingot Furnace	Click to enlarge
Cycle Time	60 hr
Max Operating Temperature	1550 C
Charge Capacity	600 kg

Last Update

29-12-2011

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