The solar cell industry is currently experiencing a major growth. New production facilities are being built across the globe – particularly in Europe and Asia.
Electronic gases play a key role in photovoltaic cell manufacturing.
Our Electronics Business Area and subsidiaries the Linde Nippon Sanso Group and Eco-Snow Systems™ have established themselves as trusted partners and suppliers in this field.
Our activities here involve providing innovative solutions to replace harmful gases with climate-neutral ones and enable further expansion of the eco-friendly solar cell industry.
In Europe, the Linde Nippon Sanso Group – a joint venture between Linde and the Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TNSC) – supplies customers in the semiconductor and solar cell industries primarily from our electronic gases facility in Unterschleißheim, near Munich, which opened in 2006.
In 2007, we added the Hamburg-based Conergy AG, with its new production plant in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, to the list of customers we serve with this technology.
In Austria, Blue Chip Energy GmbH has invested EUR 50 million in constructing the nation’s first photovoltaic cell plant. This began producing highly efficient silicon-based solar cells in May 2008.
Linde Nippon Sanso provides all gases, supplies equipment and delivers a total gas management service here. At full capacity, the plant is geared to supply 800,000 square metres of solar cells annually – enough to provide power to 16,000 households.
