Asian manufacturers have come to dominate the PV industry, but the companies making the machines filling their ever-growing factories remain predominately Western.
Zurich-listed Meyer Burger more than tripled its operating profit to SFr127.8m ($141.2m) in 2010 on the strength of Asian sales, and its completed SFr300m acquisition of Swiss rival 3S Industries.
Meyer Burger’s constellation of subsidiaries sell a broad range of PV manufacturing kit, from saws that that slice ingots into wafers (Wafertec) to string-soldering machines for cell connection (Somont) to module-laminating technology (Modultec).
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