Abstract
Thanks to incentive policies, the PV market has followed an average annual
growth of 30% over the last five years, reaching 60% in 2004. Since 2005, the
shortage of the main used raw material (purified silicon) has strongly slow
down solar modules market whereas demand continue to increase.
Recently, leading silicon suppliers have announced large investments in
production capacity.These companies e.g. REC, Hemlock, Wacker Chemie,
Tokuyama... are expected to minimize silicon shortage situation in 2009. These
announcements have lead to the forecast of a market tripling by 2010 and such
dynamism is creating important market and industry mutations. Established PV
companies such as Q-Cells, Sunpower, Suntech... are now modelling their
businesses to anticipate pressure on margins. Following success stories of
Applied Materials and Oerlikon, material and equipment manufacturers from the
semi-conductor industry are eying the industry' s double-digit growth and
entering PV market with vigour.
Most equipment or material suppliers need a full description of the context to
evaluate the opportunities and risks of PV market: booming market, emerging
technologies on the market, processes to be optimized for large production,
manufacturing cost reduction...
This report clarifies the situation in providing information and analysis:
- a complete quantification of the market until 2015,
- an overview of the 9 main PV technologies,
- an exhaustive description of their respective manufacturing processes.
Equipment manufacturers and materials suppliers will find all requested data
either to enter PV industry or to increase their investment in this market.
The report offers a full description of photovoltaic' s market, technologies,
manufacturing processes, equipments and materials and it also includes key
figures, analyses and useful tools for strategic decisions.
This report answer to:
- Size of current global manufacturing equipment park
- The manufacturing processes per technologies
- Appropriate equipment and materials needed for photovoltaic modules
manufacturers
- Ranking of photovoltaic technologies
- Equipment and materials challenges to be taken up
More than traditional reports presenting global market size forecast,
segmentation and some technology description, the purpose here is to cross
several analysis to offer a good representation of the industrial situation
A third of the report is exclusively focusing on market opportunities for main manufacturing equipments:
- PECVD
- Sputtering
- Lasers
- Screen printing
- Wet bench
- Diffusion furnace
- Lithography
- MOCVD
For each equipment, we propose market evolution scenarios based on several
throughputs that ones can recognize its own specifications. We also report
equipment competitive technologies, main players, average price... Purchasing
this report will give you an instant access to structured benchmark
information, market forecasts and several analyses.
Manufacturers of equipment: lasers, screen printers wet benches, furnaces,
sputtering systems, CVD systems, PVD systems... and suppliers of all
associated materials must be aware of the photovoltaic market opportunities!
Yole Développement has studied and analysed the manufacturing processes of the main 9 technologies:
- Wafer based,
- Thin wafer based,
- a-Si,
- Tandem a-Si/ƒÊSi,
- III-V,
- CIS/CIGS,
- CdTe,
- Dye sensitized solar cells,
- Organic solar cells.
Among these technologies, some reached production and others are still being
developed. All of them need materials and equipments solutions to increase
innovation (lightweight, versatility, aesthetic...), optimize process and
reduce manufacturing cost.
Yole Développment' s report will help suppliers to control new technical
requirements to take benefit from the shift in equipment or material solutions
for industrialization and mass production.
Companies in the report
Air Liquide, Altatech, AMI Presco, Analog JSC, Antec Solar, Applied
Films/Applied Materials, ASYS/EKRA, Aurel Automation, Baccini, BP Solar,
Brilliant 234, Centrotherm, CSG Solar, DEK, Denal, Despatch, Deutsche Cell,
Dow Corning, Dupont, Dyesol, Ecole Polytechnique de Paris, Elkem, EnviroEtch,
ErSol, ESL ElectroScience, ETHZ, Evergreen, Ever-Q, Ferro, Firstsolar, Flisom,
Fraunhofer ISE, Gebr Schmid, GT Solar, Heraeus, IMT Neuchatel, Innolas, Iowa
Thin Films, IRDEP, ISET, Isofoton, Kaneka, Komax Systems, Konarka, Koyo,
Kyocera, Machine Dubuit, MEMC, Metalor, Mitsubishi Electric, Motech,
Nanosolar, NPC, NREL, Oerlikon, OTB Engineering, Pemco Euroinks, PVA tepla,
Q-Cells, REC, RENA Rofin, Roth and Rau, Saint-Gobain, Sanyo, Schott Solar
Seishin, Sharp, Sierratherm, Solar Force, SolarWorld, Stang, Sulfurcell, Sun
Techniks, Suntech, Surlyn, Technofimes, Top Solar, Trumpf, United
SolarOvonics, University of Barcelona, University of Julich, University of
Konstanz, University of Parma, University of Toledo, Utrech University, Veeco,
VHF-Technologies, Von Ardenne, Wurth Solar...
Who should buy this report?
Both established PV industry equipment manufacturers and new entrants will
quickly recoup PV TEAM report purchase.
PV TEAM report targets:
- Marketing Executives of equipment and materials companies will find key
figures for their strategic plans and offer design.
- Sales & Business Development Managers will have market potential (# of
machine/year) and operational tools (Equipment/techno; Techno/market segments).
- Technical Directors will find global overview of all processes with a
benchmark on main equipments. They will find all relevant information to
evaluate the customization of their equipments
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