Press Releases
Damen wins third prize in Dutch Top 100 Green Companies
At the end of June, De Telegraaf, the largest newspaper in the Netherlands, concluded its Top 100 competition for Dutch ‘green’ companies. The winners, out of 25 nominees, were Moonen Packaging, Conscious Hotels and Damen Shipyards Group. The top-three greenest companies in the Netherlands were selected by a jury comprising green entrepreneur Ruud Koornstra (known… Read more »
Meyer Burger awarded two contracts totalling over CHF 5 million with customers in Asia and Europe
Meyer Burger has successfully concluded an important contract for a fully integrated, automated solar module manufacturing line with a new customer in the United Kingdom. Meyer Burger also announces the signing of a contract with an existing customer in Taiwan for the sale of both on-stock and second hand slicing equipment for solar wafers. The… Read more »
Mercks Innovative Isishape Etching Pastes Win Two Global Awards For Quality And Service
Darmstadt, Germany, July 25, 2013 – Merck has won two renowned awards in one week. On July 9, it was presented with the global 2013 Intersolar Award for Photovoltaic Production Technologies in San Francisco, USA. Then on July 16, it was honored by TPK Touch Solutions Inc., the world’s leading touch panel maker, as outstanding… Read more »
Sputnik Engineering AG Announces Plan for Strategic Alignment
Biel, Switzerland -July 25, 2013 – The Swiss inverter manufacturer Sputnik Engineering today informs about restructuring plans. These plans include an optimization of the existing processes and cost structures as well as a strategic reorientation of the company. In addition to reduced operational and administrative costs this could also result in a reduction of the… Read more »
Wales Siemens Receives Uks Largest Direct Drive Order For Onshore Wind Farm
• 76 Siemens direct drive turbines for Vattenfall project in Wales• Wind power plant with 228 MW will supply energy for around 140,000 homes• Siemens will also provide service and maintenance for a five year period Siemens has been chosen to supply, install and service 76 direct drive turbines at Vattenfall’s onshore wind farm “Pen… Read more »
Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum enhances offer for R&D experimentation systems
Chemical Vapor Deposition is widely used in research and development laboratories, especially for the synthesis of carbon nanostructures of graphene, vertically aligned carbon nanotubes or silicon nano wires. Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum now offers a safe, simple, plug & play solution. “In this minuscule world of atomic-sized layers, fast and reproducible experiments are vital. The CVD… Read more »
Ingeteam is to supply its PV inverters to a 96 MW plant in South Africa
The plant, one of the largest in Africa, represents the consolidation of Ingeteam in that country Ingeteam is to supply its 1 MW central inverters to one of the largest PV plants in the African continent. The project, named Jasper PV, is to be executed and constructed by a consortium formed by Iberdrola Engineering and… Read more »
i-Energy Celebrates 1st Microinverter Installation in Japan
Unique Floating Water-Based Solar Power System Shows Installation Versatility i-Energy, a Taiwan-based developer and supplier of advanced photovoltaic power conversion and optimization products, today announced the completion of two water-based 20kW solar power systems in Ono City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. These solar power systems are installed on two floating pontoons in an unused farm reservoir,… Read more »
ZEISS is shaping the future of microscopy by acquiring Xradia
X-ray microscopy solutions close the gap between light and electron microscopy JENA/Germany, PLEASANTON/California/USA , 18.07.2013. ZEISS, the international leader in the fields of optics and optoelectronics announced today that the acquisition of U.S.-based Xradia, Inc. has been completed. The closing took place on July 12, 2013 after all formal conditions, as set in the Acquisition… Read more »
80 per cent self-consumption of solar energy in industrial buildings possible
Printing plate manufacturer saves €465,000 in electricity costs thanks to the Centrosolar Solution Centre Industrial companies can consume the power from a photovoltaic system almost entirely themselves, even without a storage system. A manufacturer of printing plates in northern Germany uses over 80 per cent of the power from its PV system itself. The system… Read more »
