Schott in the arm for CSP as German group predicts boom

Germany’s Schott has appointed a new managing director for its concentrating solar power (CSP) division and underscored its confidence in the technology's commercial future – just two weeks after Siemens announced it would abandon the sector altogether.

The blast of positive pronouncements on the future of CSP from Schott is all the more significant, given its decision earlier this summer to wind down its large crystalline silicon (c-Si) division, at a cost of nearly 900 jobs across production sites in Germany, the US and the Czech Republic.

Patrick Markschläger, a mechanical engineer most recently in charge of Schott’s thin-film PV manufacturing operations in central Germany, will take the reins as managing director of Schott Solar CSP from Christoph Fark, who now heads Schott’s strategy department.

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