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Profile
Founded in 2008
Number of employees 22
Equity (in EUR million) 0.58
Financing needs (in EUR million) up to 3.0
Positive result from 2013
Revenues in 2010 (in EUR million) 0.4
Revenues in 2011 (in EUR million) 0.3
Revenues in 2012 (e) (in EUR million) 0.9
Revenues in 2013 (e) (in EUR million) 4.4
Contact
Contact person Michael Bartels
Phone +49-(0) 64 21-16 89 40-0
E-mail michael.bartels@concentratoroptics.com
Website www.concentratoroptics.com
Address Lahnstraße 16
35091 Cölbe
Germany
Business field
Concentrator Optics is the one-stop-shop turnkey provider
of the technologies that enable production of Fresnel
lenses. Our services include the optical design, prototyping
and manufacture of Fresnel lenses for concentrating photovoltaics
(CPV) and we also offer complete turnkey production
lines.
Strategic market position
The market volume for solar optics in CPV is expected to
exceed EUR 500 million in 2015. These optics will be nonimaging
Fresnel lenses within large-scale Fresnel lens
parquets that deliver maximum transmittance. Traditional
lens-makers do not produce lens parquets such as these,
as they have specialised in other materials, processes and
small-scale units. Indeed, there are only 5 companies in the
world that produce Fresnel lenses for CPV. Concentrator
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Optics is the only company supporting both processes
customary in the market (PMMA and silicone-on-glass, or
SoG for short). It is also the only one to offer both processes
as turnkey supplier to its customers.
Management
Ralf Leutz has been working on Fresnel lenses and solar
applications for more than 15 years. He has accompanied
several solar projects, right through from research to production.
Dr. Leutz wrote the book “Nonimaging Fresnel
Lenses – Design and Performance of Solar Concentrators”
(Springer, 2001) and he is a renowned expert in the developing
CPV market.
Michael Bartels complements the team as an experienced
shareholder, managing director and board member of
several companies. His responsibilities at Concentrator
Optics include marketing, sales, IT and finance.
Planned investment, shareholders / investors
Concentrator Optics is currently planning another funding
round to the tune of EUR 2 million to EUR 3 million, such
that the company can ensure and press ahead with its
growth. 75% of this investment has already been firmly
committed.
The current shareholders are Capricorn Cleantech Fund,
Leuven, Belgium; KfW; and the founders Dr. Ralf Leutz,
Rainer Adomeit, Dr. Ling Fu and Hans Philipp Annen.