Sweden-based Midsummer, a leading manufacturer of high efficiency lightweight, flexible solar cells and solar panels, has received a repeat order for its compact DUO solar cell manufacturing system from customer in the Far East.

The Midsummer DUO is a compact, fully automatic deposition system for copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar cell manufacturing. It’s designed for high throughput, operational stability, optimised layer uniformity and superior material utilisation.

The company received the order following the successful acceptance test in which its DUO system greatly exceeded the guaranteed efficiency specifications, said a statement from Midsummer.

Midsummer has recently signed a multi-million-dollar repeat order for its DUO system from an undisclosed multinational corporation that previously bought the system in April last year, it said.

The repeat order was placed after a successful "Acceptance Test" done in the end of 2015 where Midsummer’s DUO system exceeded the promised efficiency specification with over 1 percentage point. Due to a strong demand for lightweight, flexible modules the customer decided to buy another DUO manufacturing system, which will be delivered in the end of 2016, it added.

Sven Lindström, CEO, Midsummer, said: “We have again shown that we are the leading provider of turnkey production lines of flexible thin film CIGS.”

“Our focus on lightweight flexible modules appeals to the market, as well as our use of sputtering for all layers, and that the production process is an all-dry, all vacuum process,” he said.

“Fewer large scale solar energy parks are being built in Europe and the global solar cell market is facing a paradigm shift. Focus is shifting to installations on large buildings in cities. Lightweight and flexible thin film solar cells are ideal for this market. It is economically and environmentally more beneficial to use solar energy locally, where it is produced,” he concluded. – TradeArabia News Service