Coating

  • India: First Coating for Aluminium Fins-

     Maharaja Techno Chromes” First of its kind in India: Bengaluru-based Maharaja Techno Chromes, one of the largest solar coating companies in India, uses the Nalsun technology to coat aluminium fins in black chrome.
    Photo: Maharaja Techno Chromes

  • Washed Glass: 24-hour Just-in-Time Supply-

    Petraglas in Austria” Greenonetec in Austria is the first collector factory in Europe that has its own glass supplier next door. Petraglas set up a production unit just across the road. This is a model already standard in China, where the material suppliers are situated in the same industrial area as the collector manufacturers. Photo: Greenonetec

  • India: NAL develops new sputtered Absorber Coating-

     Magnetron sputtering process” The Surface Engineering Division of the Bengaluru-based Indian National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL) has developed a new sputtered absorber coating, which could be applied to 6" stainless steel tubes of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants once the technology has passed the laboratory stage. A Magnetron sputtering process is used to cover the surface with the TiAlN/TiAlON/Si3N4 tandem coating.
    Photo: NAL