Meyer Burger Technology : DW288 Series 3 diamond wire cutting solution selected as PV Magazine’s 2016 Technology Highlight award winner.

Meyer Burger Technolog Ltd (SIX Swiss Exchange MBTN) has been honoured with the PV Magazine 2016 Technology Highlight award for its DW288 Series 3 diamond wire cutting solution. Selected from a field of 38 entries by an independent jury made up of photovoltaic experts from the solar manufacturing, research and media sectors, the DW288 Series 3, the newest generation of Meyer Burger's established diamond wire cutting technology, convinced the jury with its improved efficiency in wafer cutting and its downstream impact on high efficiency solar cell technologies.

Also among PV Magazine's Top 10 highly commended technologies for 2016, as recognised by the jury, are Meyer Burger's MIS solar module tester in sixth place and its high performance heterojunction (HJT) cell coating technology in ninth place. The compact new MIS module tester significantly increases manufacturing throughput while increasing pulse length and improving spectrum uniformity with an A+A+A+ LED light source. Meyer Burger's industrialised high performance heterojunction (HJT) technology enables solar cell efficiencies starting at 22% at the lowest cost of production.

Meyer Burger is very proud to be the recipient of the PV Magazine 2016 Technology Award. Such independent recognition by a jury of solar industry experts underscores Meyer Burger's technology leadership in the PV market and strengthens our focus on driving research and technological development to further advance photovoltaic technologies and enable a real sustainable reduction in costs per kWh for solar electricity.

For further information, please contact:

Werner Buchholz
Head of Corporate Communications
Phone +41 (0)33 221 25 06
werner.buchholz@meyerburger.com