Meyer
Burger
–
the
world’s
second
largest
supplier
of
machines
used
to
make
PV
components
since
its
acquisition
of
Roth
&
Rau
last
year
–
released
grim
figures
for
the
first
half
of
2012,
which
it
says
were
nevertheless
“in
line
with
expectations”.
Meyer
Burger
describes
an
“extremely
tense
situation”
across
the
global
PV
manufacturing
sector,
with
few
companies
aside
from
a
handful
in
Taiwan
and
Japan
in
a
position
to
order
up
any
new
production
equipment.
The
loss
in
earnings
at
the
group
level
was
SFr34.2m
($35m),
compared
to
a
profit
of…
