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 upMore 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 situationA 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/µSi, - 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 Jülich, University of Konstanz, University of Parma, University of Toledo, Utrech University, Veeco, VHF-Technologies, Von Ardenne, Würth 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