engineering the solar age - Suppliers for Photovoltaics

Comprehensive expertise and innovative solutions

GP Solar is a global provider of inspection systems, process specific materials and technological consulting for the photovoltaic industry. From the beginning, the development of innovative processes and effective integration into industrial production has been the basis of the company’s success.

Expertise:

INSPECT:

• Inline inspection systems and lab equipment for PV production.
• The products are designed for the precise monitoring of innovative solar cell production processes and enable reliable quality control.

MATERIALS:

• Specific consumables and process support for texturing and metallization.
• With high-quality consumables and individual process performances, GP Solar supports its customers in reaching the highest efficiencies in their solar production.

CONSULTING:

• Consulting services for technology, selection, acquisition and installation of new production equipment.
• Customers benefit from the company’s long-standing experience with all solar cell processes, from planning to individual optimization.

Since 1999, GP Solar has been supplying and advising its clients in the solar cell and module manufacturing industry. Together with established partners, the company continually improves existing technologies.

In close cooperation with its parent company, centrotherm photovoltaics AG, GP Solar is familiar with the latest technologies and process innovations along the entire value chain. In Europe, Asia and the USA, the company has already supplied technology and measurement equipment for more than 250 production lines with a production capacity of over 10 GW.

GP Solar operates at locations throughout the world and employs more than 130 personnel with proven PV expertise. Experienced scientists, service engineers with many years of experience in the industry, as well as technical and scientific project managers work together in close cooperation.

In addition to the headquarters in Konstanz, the R&D center in Munich and the service center in Halle, there are local teams in Taiwan, the USA, India, Korea, China, Singapore and Japan.

GP Solar’s long-term corporate goals are to continuously improve solar cell and module production results and to advance the development of new solar technologies.

Solar energy available worldwide at affordable costs – this is the vision that motivates GP Solar employees every day.