Laminators and solar simulators for component production are widely used in the industry. 20 1 1 At the beginning of the year, CLP 48 introduced its own multi-wire cutting machine and polysilicon ingot furnace after more than two years of testing. So far, photovoltaic equipment in China has been completely localized.
With the support of the national "863" plan, 24 pairs of rod reduction furnaces, the key equipment for purifying high-purity silicon materials, have also been successfully developed.
20 1 1 in may, 2008, VLSI Research published the ranking of photovoltaic equipment manufacturers for 20 10, showing that 48 companies became the first China company to rank among the top 10 photovoltaic equipment manufacturers in the world. VLSI Research is famous for its unparalleled accuracy, innovative market research methods and accurate insight into the rapid pulse of research coverage industries. According to its market research data, 48' s impressive business income of $295 million has overwhelmed a well-known Swedish equipment manufacturer, entered the first phalanx of global photovoltaic equipment manufacturers, and ranked ninth among the "20 10 Top Ten Global Photovoltaic Equipment Manufacturers", breaking the pattern that the ranking has been dominated by large European and American equipment manufacturers for a long time for the first time. Facing the grim situation that European and American PV equipment manufacturers have occupied the international and domestic PV equipment market for a long time, 48. Therefore, it is our responsibility to revitalize the national industry. In the research and development process of special electronic equipment, we have successfully independently developed key solar photovoltaic equipment such as cleaning machine, diffusion furnace, PECVD, etching machine, high and low temperature sintering furnace, single crystal furnace and ingot furnace, realizing the "turnkey" from single equipment to single equipment and technology development, and from full-line equipment to full-line equipment and technology development. Relying on rich experience in equipment manufacturing, process technology and full-line construction, 48 Institute has the ability to build "intelligent" photovoltaic equipment and photovoltaic cell production lines, and is rapidly moving towards this goal.
48 solar photovoltaic devices have established a good reputation among domestic users and been widely recognized by the industry. More and more customers benefit from using domestic devices. It can be said that China's solar photovoltaic industry has the ability to face international competition in just a few years. The sharp weapon to achieve rapid development lies in the unparalleled low-cost advantage while technology is in line with international standards. Besides the low labor and operating costs, the main reasons for maintaining low production costs are the widespread application of low-priced domestic equipment (only imported equipment 1/3 on average), which greatly reduces the investment cost of enterprises. Otherwise, due to the industrial characteristics of 95% of the photovoltaic industry market in Europe, America and Japan, it is hard to imagine that domestic enterprises can compete in the international market with the procurement cost of silicon materials far higher than that of similar foreign enterprises.
Domestic equipment has been applied to large production lines.
In 2002, some enterprises in our country cooperated with first-class battery enterprises, introduced advanced technology and developed supernormally. After many technical transformations and upgrades, domestic key solar cell equipment has been applied in domestic large-scale production lines one after another, making China basically have the full supply capacity of solar cell manufacturing equipment.
The serious shortage of high-purity silicon materials provides excellent development opportunities for domestic single crystal furnace enterprises with high quality and low price. In recent years, dozens of new single crystal drawing enterprises have placed a large number of orders, which has kept domestic equipment enterprises at full capacity and attracted a large number of orders from Japan, South Korea and Taiwan Province Province. Such a hot scene that has not been seen for many years directly gave birth to the order of four photovoltaic equipment manufacturers in 2006 exceeding 100 million yuan, and the momentum in 2007 is even worse, which is a prosperous scene that China's electronic special equipment industry has not seen for many years.
In addition, although large-scale production of amorphous silicon solar cells has not yet been formed, the growth rate has obviously accelerated, and the corresponding amorphous silicon battery equipment has also attracted many enterprises to try to enter in a way similar to foreign full-line packaging equipment and technology.
Compared with the international advanced level, the most critical domestic solar cell production equipment are diffusion furnace, plasma etching machine, cleaning/texturing machine, etc. It has reached or approached the international advanced level, occupying most domestic markets, and has obvious cost-effective advantages. There is a gap between tubular PECVD and rapid sintering furnace and the international advanced level, but it is not big. It has been used in large-scale production lines, and its market share has gradually expanded, with obvious cost-effective advantages. There is no flat-panel PECVD in China, and the other two key equipment, automatic screen printing machine and automatic sorting machine, are far from foreign countries in terms of overall level because the core technology can't bypass the technical patent blockade of foreign companies and there is no substantive breakthrough. Almost all major domestic production lines use expensive imported equipment.
Among the silicon wafer processing equipment, some joint ventures have high-grade fully automatic single crystal furnaces close to the international advanced level. However, due to their high price, the number of applications in photovoltaic industry is limited. On the contrary, low-cost and applicable low-automation single crystal furnaces are widely used. Taking advantage of the rare opportunity of silicon shortage, mass production can be formed, occupying most of the domestic market and exporting in batches.
High-end automation products, such as laminators in component production equipment, are almost the same as the international advanced level and have obvious technical characteristics, but low-end products occupy most of the market.
There is a big gap between the technical level of silicon purification equipment and foreign products, and only sporadic products are produced.
20 10 will provide a market of 3.6 billion yuan for equipment.
From 2003 to 65438+February 2006, in just four years, 47 standard solar cell production lines (25MW/ piece) were built in China. According to the current average equipment investment of 30 million yuan per line, the equipment market is as high as 654.38+04 billion yuan. If we count the investment in solving the shortage of silicon wafers and purchasing polysilicon ingot furnace, single crystal furnace, cutting machine, wire saw and other materials manufacturing equipment, the total domestic related equipment market exceeds 2.5 billion yuan. About13 of the market is occupied by domestic equipment. In recent years, it has saved nearly 300 million dollars in foreign exchange for the country and more than 2 billion yuan in investment for users. In the solar photovoltaic industry has a preliminary right to speak. In 2005, * * * sold about 330 sets of related equipment, with sales of nearly 400 million yuan, reaching 700 million yuan in 2006.
According to the development plan of the top ten industries, by 20 10, China will increase its production capacity by more than 3000MW. Even if the mainstream configuration scheme of mixing domestic and imported equipment is adopted, it can at least provide equipment manufacturers with a market of 3.6 billion yuan. If all imported equipment is adopted, the equipment investment will be 8.4 billion yuan.