FREE WEBCAST: Materials converters and adhesive suppliers can help solar design and manufacturing engineers meet today’s solar manufacturing challenges to reduce costs, increase panel quality, and prolong panel lifecycles. In this webinar, you will learn about new materials, adhesives, and the converting capabilities, including advances in PSA’s for bus bars, that will help you improve solar manufacturing.

The attendee will come away with the following information:

·         The role of the converter in solar panel manufacturing

·         How advances in materials and adhesives technology can give you a manufacturing advantage

·         Different converting capabilities for solar

·         The advantages and characteristics of PSA tape

·         New application of PSA tapes to bus bars

·         Challenges facing converters working on advanced bus bars

In this FREE webinar, you will learn about new materials, adhesives, and the converting capabilities, including advances in PSA’s for bus bars, that will help you improve solar manufacturing.

Craig McClenachan Vice President, Fabrication and Assembly Business Unit Fabrico
Deepak Hariharan Electronics Business Manager Adhesives Research
Don Herr R&D Group Leader Adhesives Research

Fabrico is the market leader in design and manufacturing services for flexible materials. By focusing on its customers’ needs, Fabrico has developed a reputation for solving unique challenges and providing sound customer solutions.

The company offers a wide range of product design and engineering capabilities including custom die cutting, rotary die cutting, prototyping, manufacturing, and final assembly and kitting.

Fabrico provides design solutions for several applications, including bonding and sealing, electrical insulation, EMI/RFI shielding, vibration dampening, masking, and many others. This broad base of expertise allows for creative and integrated solutions with strict adherence to application requirements.

Adhesives Research is a leading developer and manufacturer of custom high performance adhesive tapes, specialty coatings, films and laminates in the Electronics, Engineered Tapes, Medical, Pharmaceutical and Splicing markets.  Adhesives Research offers several sophisticated bonding technologies designed for bus bar, solar cell junction box, and encapsulation applications in crystalline and thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules.

As an alternative to traditional bonding methods such as soldering for electrical interconnects and liquid epoxies for encapsulation, the new PSA technologies from Adhesives Research offer PV manufacturers reliable bonds that deliver added functionality for enhancing the capabilities and performance of a variety of PV modules. Building upon its proven product track record, Adhesives Research advances the bonding technology options available to PV manufacturers for delivering enhanced product performance, stability and extended product lifespan. PSA tapes also offer a number of manufacturing benefits and efficiencies including ease-of-handling, continuous roll formats, and no messy clean-up.

Photovoltaics World serves the global solar/PV manufacturing industry.