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Industry The electronic news interconnection hierarchyIndustry newsSanterno chooses Sanmina-SCI aspartner to build solar inverters inOttawa, CanadaSanmina-SCI will manufacture Santerno’ssolar inverters for commercial applicationsat its Ottawa, Ontario, Canada facility.Production of the solar inverters atSanmina-SCI’s Ontario facility expandsSanterno’s manufacturing base into NorthAmerica, enabling local logistics servicesto its customers while meeting Ontario’sFeed-In Tariff domestic content requirements.www.sanmina-sci.com, www.santerno.com3S Modultec client KISCO startsmodule production in record timeWith the help of 3S Swiss Solar Systems,KISCO has completed the certificationof its module production in Korea withina period of just a few weeks. Since mid-March, KISCO has been producing highlyefficient, crystalline solar modules on anewly installed 65 MW production linefrom 3S Modultec. Once it was up and running,the production process was successfullyinspected by TÜV Rheinland barelysix months after signing the contract.KISCO has benefitted from, among otherthings, the certification service offered by3S, which has already been successfullyimplemented in a number of projects by3S Modultec in conjunction with TÜVRheinland. www.3s-pv.ch, www.meyerburger.com,www.getwatt.co.krBürkle supplies seven-openingYpsator Lamination Line to Willard& Kelsey Solar GroupBürkle North America Inc., and Willard &Kelsey Solar Group announced today thatW&K has begun high-volume productionof Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) solar panelsat their plant in Perrysburg, Ohio usingBürkle’s proven Multi Daylight Laminator,the Ypsator. The lamination system is thefirst of its type in the North Americanmarket having a host of significant featuresincluding thermal fluid platen heatingassuring uniform heating of the modulesacross the platen, minimized edge pinchdue to the hydraulic hot pressing step,reduced cycle time due to the split laminationprocess and uniform cooling resultingin flat modules having reduced internalstress. www.ypsator.comSolar3D completes design of lightcollector for solar cellSolar3D, Inc. has completed the design ofthe Light Collector section, a critical partof its novel solar cell. Inspired by lightmanagement techniques used in fiber opticdevices, the company’s innovative solar celltechnology utilizes a 3-dimensional designto trap sunlight inside micro-photovoltaicstructures where photons bounce arounduntil they are converted into electrons.Solar3D’s management believes that thisbreakthrough solar cell design will dramaticallychange the economics of solarenergy. www.solar3d.comCarl Zeiss Optronics presents solarmirror to research instituteAt the end of April, Carl Zeiss Optronicspresented the GREGOR M1 solar mirrorto a research consortium. The mirror wasbuilt under the full responsibility of theGerman optics company. Following internallapping and polishing, it features deviationfrom the nominal surface of only 20nanometers. The 1.5 meter solar mirrorwill be installed at the Teide Observatoryin the Canary Islands. Carl Zeiss Optronicswas responsible for the performance ofall three solar mirrors. With the deliveryof the M1, the Gregor Telescope can nowenter service. It replaces the 45 cm GregorCoudé Telescope that has been used for atotal of 40 years for research. www.zeiss.de/optronicsBTU International receives order formultiple solar cell rework furnacesBTU International has received an orderfor multiple hydrogen annealing furnacesfrom a major Asian solar cell manufacturer.BTU has extensive experience with hydrogenannealing processes and equipment.Today, with more than 125 hydrogen furnacesin operation in the semiconductor,nuclear and other industries, the safety andreliability of BTU’s hydrogen tools is wellestablished. www.btu.comCentrosolar introduces S-Seriespanels made in OntarioCentrosolar Canada has released theS-Series photovoltaic modules, now availableto local solar dealers and installers.Engineered in Germany and manufacturedin Ontario, Centrosolar Canada’s S-Seriesis designed for both residential and commercialapplications. The S-Series moduleis designed to deliver reliable and peakperformance power levels in cloudy and6 – Global Solar Technology – June 2011 www.globalsolartechnology.com