PES caught up with Laura Sartore, CEO at Ecoprogetti, to get the latest from this innovative European provider of Turnkey lines for Photovoltaic Panels production, who has been in our business for over 20 years. Cost reduction and reduced downtimes are always in the forefront of R&D work, as well as European and safety regulations.
PES: Hi Laura, it’s great to have you with us at PES Solar/PV. Would you like to begin by telling us a little about Ecoprogetti?
Laura Sartore: Well Ecoprogetti is the only company in Europe that designs and manufactures complete machines for the production of photovoltaic panels 100 % in Europe. We have been working on big projects since 1998, especially in Europe, The Middle East and India, where we have the biggest customer base.
We have driven development in the PV industry, starting from the old 4’ 600µm thickness round cells, through the whole evolution of solar products arriving at today’s peak, to create production solutions for PERC, bifacial, round wire, glass glass, shingling, adhesive technology and so on. We continue to drive dynamic and advanced research, both on machine innovation and cost reduction solutions, so that we always provide the most competitive and efficient turnkey production solutions from 10MW to 1GW.
PES: We are keen to know more about your turnkey lines for the production of PV modules. Are you able to customise these to suit the customers’ needs?
LS: Of course this is part of our core business, together with standard lines we make tailor made machines and tailor made production lines quite frequently.
More and more often the module producers don’t require a standard machine, but rather need a product that differentiates them from the competition and that maintains their competitive advantage.
Our clients get the answers from us that can’t find from the competition thanks to our decennial experience, also in the PV process. Some clients ask for flexible modules, no glass, with innovative materials, compositions and substrates that makes the panel highly customized. We study with these clients the best method to industrialize their product, from start-up, the tests and validation and to the series production.
We work according to three key words: flexibility, simplicity and modularity. These stand for the adaptability of the machines/production lines to the customers’ needs, the suitability to work with different types of cells and raw materials to produce all kind of PV modules, the simplicity of use and the little maintenance needed and the easiness of upgrading a production line to a higher efficiency in a very cost-competitive way by upgrading and working on the existing equipment.
By then using Ecoprogetti’s PV panel manufacturing machines, customizable in whole or in part, it is possible to make a quality product, whilst optimizing operation costs and cycle times.
Ecoprogetti’s solar panel manufacturing machines provide the right level of automation depending on the business needs.
