SCHOTT Solar

Project created local jobs along the solar value chain from manufacturer to distributor to installer and subcontractors

• 100 modern working places
• Opening ceremony involving Minister President Beck and Mayor Beutel

SCHOTT Solar AG will now be writing a new chapter in the history of the company. Today, the solar company inaugurated its new headquarters together with around 100 invited guests, including the Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate, Kurt Beck, and the Mayor of Mainz, Jens Beutel.

SCHOTT Solar CSP, Inc. today announced the appointment of Richard Gruber to the position of Executive Vice President, Sales & Business Development. In his new role, Mr. Gruber is responsible for leading sales and business development for SCHOTT Solar CSP, Inc in the United States, an increasingly important global market for concentrated solar power (CSP).

SCHOTT manufactures mirror substrates from “Zerodur” for the world’s largest solar telescope ATST

• SCHOTT Solar awarded for “Best Applied Research and Development in Concentrated Solar Power Technology”
• A new generation of receivers raises efficiency and reduces costs of electricity generation in large-scale solar power plants

SCHOTT manufactures mirror substrates from “Zerodur” for the world’s largest solar telescope ATST

• Business is developing positively - Growth in sales expected for the current fiscal year
• Successful execution of a global project on reducing the costs of manufacturing
• Entry into the photovoltaic project business
• More strategic alliances in planning

• Polycrystalline silicon solar cell for top efficiency of 18.2 percent
• Quality strategy the product of high performance, durability and innovation

Today, SCHOTT Solar AG introduced new solar cell concepts that reinforce the company’s claim to technological leadership at the industry trade fair Intersolar. In specific terms, this is a polycrystalline silicon solar cell in the industrial format of 243 cm² of cell surface that exhibits top efficiency of 18.2 percent that has been confirmed independently.

• New linear performance guarantees offer system operators higher fixed, calculable yields, year after year
• Fraunhofer Institute and "Ökotest" confirm the reliable premium quality from SCHOTT Solar in independent tests

• New MONO series of modules for higher yields, even on top of roofs with small surface areas
• Direct evaporation receivers increase the efficiency of Fresnel collector systems
• Other exhibition highlights: the roof-integrated InDaX series and elegant ASI thin-film modules