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August 27, 2008
MTS: International Player from Italy

Solar thermal factory in Italy: Flat-plate collectors for the MTS Group’s business are produced at this new site in central Italy. Photo: MTS Group
August 27, 2008
Energy Company Bosch Buys Cell Manufacturer Ersol

Robert Bosch GmbH has taken over the Thuringian solar cell manufacturer Ersol Solar Energy AG, Germany. In August the world’s largest automotive supplier and electronics company bought up 44.76 % of the shares from the previous majority shareholder Ventizz Capital Partners Advisory AG. Since...
August 27, 2008
Solar Coatings: Tinox Gets a Strong Partner

During the solar fair Intersolar 2008 in June, the German-based MAGE Industrie Holding AG and the Italian-based Almeco Group announced the merger of their coating activities in the solar thermal business field. The combination of the Almeco Group and the MAGE subsidiary Tinox GmbH brings together a...
August 20, 2008
Confident Newcomers in the U.S.

After almost 20 years of stagnant markets, since 2005 the U.S. solar thermal market is exploding. According to the official governmental statistics (www.eia.doe.gov) the market rose by 77 % in 2006 to 111,480 m² (78 MW_th). After many years of winter sleep the local industry is...
August 20, 2008
Summer boom in Germany

Germany's solar thermal market is growing again, and this at an astonishing rate. After market sales plummeted by 37 % in the past year, the monthly sales statistics of BDH (Federal Industrial Association Germany House, Energy and Environmental Technology) – as they are available to the author –...
August 20, 2008
Tunisian Market Growing Rapidly

The Tunisian solar thermal market has increased tenfold in only the last four years. Before starting the grant programme Prosol II in 2005, only 7,000 m² had been installed in Tunisia (4.9 MW_th). Last year already showed installations of 60,000 m² (42 MW_th...

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