Trading places: Emerging markets move to <strong>the</strong> forefront new members Jack Howard, Alan Howe, John Quicke and Mikel Williams to serve one-year terms as board of directors. • named former president, CEO and director of DDi, Mikel Williams to position of CEO and President. Nippon Electric Glass developed thinner glass material for <strong>the</strong> protective covers for dye-sensitized solar cells. Royal DSM • acquired <strong>Solar</strong>Excel BV. • opened KhepriCoat anti-reflective coating manufacturing plant in Geleen, Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands. Tanaka Precious Metals obtained ISO/ IEC17025 accreditation for silver analysis technology in Japan. Process equipment Applied Materials named Bob Halliday, Sr VP and CFO. centro<strong>the</strong>rm sold its subsidiary, GP <strong>Solar</strong> to ISRA VISION. DEK <strong>Solar</strong> opened Suzhou <strong>Technology</strong> Center in China. GEFRAN appointed Mick White as Sou<strong>the</strong>ast Regional Sales Manager, Industrial Sensor and Automation Products. IPG Photonics acquired Mobius Photonics. Mondragon Assembly received 30 MW turnkey solar manufacturing line order from Alfa <strong>Solar</strong>. PARC redesigned printers to produce solar panels, batteries. Silicon ingot wafer <strong>Solar</strong> wafer production is forecast to grow 19% in 2013, passing 30GW and recovering to 2011 levels.—<strong>Solar</strong>Buzz 1366 Technologies added Yasheng Huang to its Board of Directors. Comtec <strong>Solar</strong> set up Sarawak solar wafer plant in Sama Jaya Free Industrial Zone. Danen started volume production of solar wafers with 17.6% energy efficiency. Daqo COO, Qiangmin Zhou resigned. Globe Specialty Metals’ CFO, Malcolm Appelbaum will leave company in August 2013. Hemlock Semiconductor cut 50 jobs in Michigan and 300 employees in Clarksville, Tennessee. Hyundai Heavy exited polysilicon business and withdrew its shares from Korean Advanced Materials jv. JX Nippon Oil & Energy ended its solargrade poly-silicon business due to serious price competition. LDK slashed workforce and manufacturing capacity as it seeked investors to <strong>Solar</strong> wafer production is forecast to grow 19% in 2013, passing 30 gigawatts and recovering to 2011 levels. refinance $3 billion in debt. MEMC changed its name to SunEdison. Sanyo <strong>Solar</strong> laid off 52 workers in Salem, Oregon. Sino-American Silicon acquired Sino <strong>Solar</strong>. <strong>Solar</strong>giga’s 900MW monocrystalline wafer production fully booked in 2013. Spectrolab introduced 50% larger solar cell wafer that it claims will reduce customers’ costs by 10-15%. Thin film Dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) market will slowly grow to over $130 million by 2023—IDTechEx AIST developed novel light-trapping structure to enhance optical absorption inside thin-film silicon solar cells resulting in 10.5% conversion efficiency. Avancis closed 20 MW CIGS PV facility in Germany. DayStar Technologies was acquired by PacWest Equities. Dow Chemical acquired NuvoSun. Dyesol achieved solid-state DSC 11.3% efficiency at full sun. First <strong>Solar</strong> • achieved 16.1% total area efficiency for CdTe Module. launched Series 3 black module. • acquired TetraSun. • was <strong>the</strong> #1 solar developer in <strong>the</strong> world (based on March 2013 data), <strong>the</strong> #1 solar EPC contractor in <strong>the</strong> world (same data source), and <strong>the</strong> #2 solar module manufacturer in <strong>the</strong> world (based on 2012 figures). • laid off 150 North American workers. • Ex. VP of Sales, James Brown resigned. Hanergy Group • is investing RMB2.4 billion to construct 300MW CIGS cell module thin-film solar cell plant in Zhuzhou, China. • established Hanergy <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Solar</strong> Power and Applications Group, comprising four business units and six regional offices. Hanyang University and Stanford University jointly fabricated peel-andstick thin film solar cells. Magnolia <strong>Solar</strong>, SUNY NanoCollege and U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium demonstrated flexible CIGS solar cell with 13% efficiency. MiaSole added 200 employees at its Santa Clara, CA HQ. Midsummer began producing individual CIGS thin film cells on stainless steel substrate. Nanosolar terminated 170 employees at its San Jose, California HQ. <strong>Solar</strong> Frontier restarted thin-film solar module manufacturing at its Miyazaki No. 2 Plant in Kiyotakecho, Miyazaki, Japan. <strong>Solar</strong> Press is developing printed solar cells for powering air quality sensors for building energy management systems. Solexant named Dr. Markus Beck, CTO. SoloPower • closed its Portland, Oregon plant. • laid off 61 employees in San Jose, California. T-<strong>Solar</strong> laid off 170 employees in Ourense, Spain. XsunX appointed John Tuttle to its Advisory Board. CVD Equipment moved into new HQ in Central Islip, New York. Trade organizations SEIA VP, John Smirnow was named Chairman of US Department of Commerce Advisory Committee. SEMI released 4th edition of <strong>the</strong> International <strong>Technology</strong> Roadmap for PV. Jon Custer-Topai is vice president of Custer Consulting Group and responsible for <strong>the</strong> corporation’s market research and news analysis activities. Jon is a member of <strong>the</strong> IPC and active in <strong>the</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> Marketing Research Council. jon@custerconsulting. com 18 – <strong>Global</strong> <strong>Solar</strong> & Alternative Energies – May/June 2013 www.globalsolartechnology.com
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