Solarpeq Speakers and Conference Topics Announced

Speakers and conference topics have now been announced for the solarpeq international trade fair for solar production equipment that will premier in Düsseldorf from 28 September to 01 October 2010. Renowned PV specialists including Applied Materials and Scheuten Solar are among the A-list speakers now confirmed for the event.

Confirmed topics to be presented at solarpeq include:

Large Facilities Requirements
• Keynote: recent implementation of a state-of-the-art facility
• How to plan, build and commission facilities
• Regional support: do policies influence site selection?
• Case: policy of solar cluster

Materials Management
• Optimal supply chain for materials and supply: a safe and efficient way of working
• Impact of standards on the supply chain
• Case: group of German Cell Manufactures

Session 1: Manufacturing excellence in C-Si
- Challenges in life cycle management of a C-Si module production line
- Case: 10 years of growth
- Panel: where are the greatest opportunities for higher yields?

Session 2: Manufacturing excellence in thin-film.
• How to make a cost benchmark.
• From glass to panel: challenges in Si-based thin-film.
• Challenges for CIGS.
• Cases: customer experience.
• Panel: when will thin-film dominate the market? And which technology has the most potential?

Does size matter?
- Flexible manufacturing: how to keep capacity and utilization in balance.
- Evolutionary PV-module production – from an isolated production cell to an integrated, fully automated production line.
- Case: the view of a glass manufacturer on clustering and gigafabs
- Executive Panel discussion: are gigafabs the ultimate goal for efficient manufacturing? What other business models are feasible?

Speakers now finalized to present these topics include PV experts from Ch2M, Applied Materials, Silicon Border, PPG industries, Centrotherm, Linde and Gerold GmbH & Co. KG., Suntech, Fraunhofer IPA, LDK Solar, First Solar and Spire have also been invited to speak at the event.

The solarpeq-conference, organized in collaboration with the glasstec conferences in Düsseldorf, is the place to go to meet the full supply chain of the photovoltaic industry. At this conference Messe Düsseldorf and Photovoltaics International will focus on the challenges of PV manufacturing of the short and mid-long term. By having both speakers from the supplier side as from the customer side, visions and opinions can be compared and challenged through this event.