Manufacturing Equipment for the Photovoltaic Industry

Represented Companies and Products

Herbert Arnold GmbH & Co. KG - is the leading manufacturer of equipment for machining silicon in wafer manufacturing for mono- and multicrystalline materal. Arnold's product portfolio includes individual machines, automated manufacturing cells combining multiple pieces of equipment, and fully automated manufacturing solutions:

  • Brick polishing
  • Brick chamfering
  • Brick cropping
  • Ingot squaring
  • Ingot cropping
  • Ingot round grinding
  • Fully automated solutions including the equipment above

Spaleck-Stevens InnoTech Gmbh & Co. KG was founded in 2009 by Hans-Gerd Stevens, the CTO at former Meier Vakuumtechnik. Well equipped with a wealth of design know-how, experience and new ideas, the company has developed truly innovative laminators with features not available from any other laminator manufacturer. SpaleckStevens laminators are available for a broad range of applications in the PV and the glass industry as well as for lightweight industrial composits.

  • Stand-alone laminators for the laboratory or pilot lines
  • Fully automated solutions for mass production
  • Stack laminators to optimize footprint utilization
  • Laminators with "inverse" and "3-in-1" technology
  • Automation and process management options



 

Mondragon Assembly Technologies, an automation vetereran of 30 years, is a manufacturer of turnkey module fabrication lines and individual equipment used in module manufacturing. Mondragon's engineers analyze a customer's requirements, select the process equipment, and add just enough automation to match its intended purpose. The result is a well integrated, smoothly running manufacturing line. Mondragon also assists its customers in the selection of raw materials, module design, facility design, production ramp up, and more.

  • Turnkey module manufacturing lines
  • Cell testers
  • Tabber/stringers with automated layup stations
  • Bussing stations
  • Lamination stations (with 3rd party laminators)
  • Trimming stations
  • Junction box mounting stations
  • Module testing stations (with 3rd party module testers)
  • Framing stations
  • Module sorting stations
  • Testing equipment (Dark IV for string and module, IR imaging)

 

   

 

Solneva SA is a privately held Swiss based company serving the solar industry with innovative and highly reliable tools for laser based applications in the Thin Film solar industry worldwide. Based on responsive and well-foundet market feedback, Solneva constantly advances its technology and raises industry standards.

  • Laser scribing tools for P1, P2 and P3 scribing up to a glass size of gen 5
  • Configurations available for process development, prototyping and R&D, as well as mass production