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PITTSBURGH, March 2, 2009 – PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has introduced Solarphire PV glass, a product designed to maximize solar energy transmission for photovoltaic modules.
Previously many of PV module manufacturers had to queue at solar test institutes, waiting for months before their module testing could begin.
TROY, N.Y. - Cityscapes of glass-clad buildings gleaming in the sun make Anna Dyson think about wasted energy. Dyson heads the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology, or CASE, a research consortium that wants to turn office windows into…
The market leader in the field of sorting systems for glass now also offers customer-specific solutions for the solar industry.
ST. LOUIS, Feb 23, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Saflex, a business unit of Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA), announces the launch of a new encapsulant designed specifically to improve solar panel throughput and processing costs for solar module…
Solar panels are generally big, ugly things that you stick on a building not for beautification purposes, but for ecological purposes.
DuPont is investing $175 million at the Circleville, Ohio, site to complete a multi-phase expansion of high-performance DuPont™ Tedlar® PV2001 series oriented film production line.
New thin gauge encapsulant reduces material use by 33%!ST. LOUIS, Jan 19, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- As solar module manufacturers strive to realize cost structures meeting grid parity, Saflex(R), a unit of Solutia Inc. (NYSE: SOA), recently…
Two curved glass canopies secured using SFS intec’s innovative canopy fixing system have added the finishing touch to a new factory complex for one of the UK’s largest suppliers of potatoes and vegetables.
Town and city streetscapes which generate their own ‘green’ electricity have become a reality thanks to a collaboration between façade specialist Telling Architectural and glass attachment systems supplier SFS intec.
Monday, January 4 is scheduled as the official opening of the Burj Dubai in the United Arab Emirates – the world’s tallest building at 800 meters or 2,650 feet high.
Kyocera Corporation announced that it has supplied roughly 190,000 solar modules, equivalent to approximately 40 megawatts (MW), for two newly completed large-scale solar power plants in Spain.
BAODING, China, Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), one of the world's leading vertically integrated photovoltaic ("PV…
Expertise on CSP mirrors to be presented at breakout session; product nominated for Innovation AwardAuburn Hills, Mich., Nov. 9, 2009 – Global glass manufacturer Guardian Industries will present its line of solar glass products at the third…
Auburn Hills, Mich., October 20, 2009 – Global glass manufacturer Guardian Industries added to its solar glass product line today with the introduction of EcoGuard Mo, a Molybdenum-coated clear glass developed to optimize the conductivity of…
SFS intec and Peterlee Glass have delivered an innovative ‘glass cube’ within one of the North East’s most architecturally impressive museums, demonstrating the excellent versatility of structural glazing.
25 years for glass-foil modules, 30 years for doubleContinuous plus tolerance with all modules Fraunhofer Institute confirms performance in long-term test SCHOTT Solar AG continues to pursue its quality strategy and is now extending the guarantee…
Global glass manufacturer Guardian Industries presented its line of solar glass products at SolarPACES 2009 September 15-18 in Berlin.
LAVAL, Quebec, SynergX Technologies Inc., a global supplier of automated optical inspection technology for the solar panel industry, today announced nine orders for its Glass-Scan inspection systems for photovoltaic glass.
SynergX Technologies Inc., a global supplier of automated optical inspection technology for the solar panel industry, today announced nine orders for its Glass-Scan inspection systems for photovoltaic glass.  The orders come from customers in China…
Available as of March, 2010, in Germany, France and Italy, SCHOTT Solar to exhibit at EU PVSEC in hall B5, booth 77 When the solar trade exhibition and conference EU PVSEC opens its gates in September, the latest highlight of the SCHOTT Solar…
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Solutia Inc. announced today that it will be supplying Therminol VP-1 synthetic heat transfer fluid to a new 470 MW hybrid solar plant in Ain-Ben-Mathar, Morocco and a 170 MW hybrid solar plant in Hassi R…
PLAINVIEW, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 17, 2009-- Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO), a leader in scientific and industrial metrology, today announced the release of its NT9100S Optical Profiler System specifically designed to optimize…
You may have read the news about the DuPont™ PV5300 and PV5200 Series of photovoltaic (PV) encapsulant sheets.
A year ago, it seemed like gigawatt-sized solar factories were just around the corner, with companies such as Sharp and Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary Showa Shell Sekiyu unveiling plans to build 1 GW thin-film solar plants.