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Welcome Party
The VDMA Photovoltaics Equipment Sector Group invites you to a welcome party at the VDMA Headquarters on the evening before the conference. The event is open to all PV CellTech attendees.
The event begins at 17:30 in the new building foyer in front of Room 10, where welcome drinks will be served. Guests should enter from the main entrance of VDMA and walk to the right after registration. At 18:15, guests will be accompanied to Room 9 for the Keynote Speech by Prof. Peter Fath VDMA PV Chairperson and RCT Solutions CEO (18:15 – 18:30). Following the keynote for 10 – 15 min, we will return to Room 10 at 18:45 for reception networking with food and drinks being served.
Parking is available with access at VDMA.
VDMA Headquarters – Lyoner Str. 18, 60528 Frankfurt am Main – Google map
Opening from the Conference Chair
Speakers
Finlay Colville
Celebrating 10 years of PV CellTech; PV manufacturing in a Terawatt world
Moderator
Christian Buchner
The first special session of PV CellTech 2025 will examine the dynamics of the PV industry as it approaches the terawatt annual production landmark. Topics will include manufacturing trends across the c-Si value-chain, including a focused look at the polysilicon sector and prospects for new plants in the future outside China. Technology roadmap forecasts will also be examined closely, including the first showing of the latest ITRPV edition. The speakers feature some of the leading voices that have been at the forefront of PV CellTech conferences during the past decade.
Speakers
Markus Fischer
Ralf Preu
Johannes Bernreuter
Coffee Break
State-of-the-art PV manufacturing in 2025; leading producers, technologies & roadmaps
Moderator
Victor Rada
As the industry moves into the final phase of TOPCon technology being the mainstream offering, which companies are driving this concept to its maximum efficiency potential? And who are the technology-leaders that will set the benchmark in manufacturing over the next 2-3 years as the industry potentially moves to Back Contact architectures as the next dominant cell type? This session will focus on the companies creating the leading indicators for technology change in 2025, including some of the major cell producers in the industry today.Â
Speakers
Finlay Colville
Fabian Fertig
Gabriela Bunea
Networking Lunch
New PV equipment & processes driving GW-scale production line throughputs
Moderator
Gerry Knoch
High-throughput and capex-optimized tools will play a vital part in moving single-junction cells to their optimum performance levels. This session will focus on the leading PV equipment suppliers to the sector today and next-generation solutions for GW-scale production lines with efficiencies in the high twenties.Â
Presentation(s)
Speakers
Josua Stuckelberger
Edward Duffy
Davor Sutija
Carsten Rohr
Bernhard Klöter
Jan Krausmann
Coffee Break
Latest news from the European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC)
Moderator
Finlay Colville
This short session will provide an update on recent activity and future plans from the European Solar Manufacturing Council.
Speakers
Christoph Podewils
From R&D to manufacturing technology-shifts: the research labs driving the PV industry today
Moderator
Sebastian Gatz
R&D breakthroughs and transferring the technology into mass production status has been a consistent theme within the PV industry for the past couple of decades. This session will hear from some of the R&D institutes that have shaped the PV manufacturing and technology landscape today, with a focus on what is coming next to facilitate the single-junction silicon cell reaching its limits.Â
Speakers
Radovan Kopecek
Charles Roux
Kaining Ding
Networking Drinks Reception
Join us for an informal drinks reception at the end of Day 1
The globalization of PV manufacturing: who, where and what for the years ahead?
Moderator
Raymond De Munnik
Day two gets off to a flying start, with one of the most exciting developments now – the prospect of upstream PV manufacturing moving back out of Asia and into the U.S., Europe, India and other regions globally including the Middle-East. This session will hear from the companies that are at the forefront of setting up and optimizing new cell fabs in these regions. What technologies are they opting for? What equipment suppliers are being used? How much of the value-chain and eco-system is being planned or under construction to supply and use the new cells produced?Â
Speakers
George Touloupas
Massimo Centazzo
Damian Brunner
Coffee Break
The future of PV metallization
Moderator
Finlay Colville
Cell manufacturing has become a major user of silver powder, putting pressure on raw material supply channels. Furthermore, the percentage of cell processing costs from silver usage is now running at record levels, despite the achievements of the manufacturing sector in recent years to reduce the g/W consumption rates. This special session at PV CellTech Europe 2025 will examine what the future of PV metallization could look like, including new and emerging techniques to finally unlock the transition from silver to copper as the basis of screen printing and other novel approaches.
Speakers
Francesca Antoniolli
Florian Clement
Advances in perovskite manufacturing: mass production & equipment supply
Moderator
Finlay Colville
This session will look at the latest advances in perovskites, both from an equipment supply standpoint and European manufacturing. How close is the sector to moving from single to multi-junction at the mass production scale?
Speakers
Yuelong Huang
Chris Case
Sebastian Gatz
Networking Lunch
Unlocking the potential for new c-Si fabs on the global landscape
Moderator
Stefan Rinck
As cell manufacturing starts to gain traction outside China and Southeast Asia, new entrants to cell manufacturing are increasinly turning to companies that can fast track line specification, equipment selection and tool optimization. This session will hear from companies at the forefront of bringing new manufacturing to fruition across countries such as India, Turkey, Europe and the US.
Speakers
Anis Jouini
Mehmet Ender
Gordon Deans
Looking back at 10 years of PV CellTech
In this special one-hour session, PV CellTech Chair and founder, Dr. Finlay Colville will give a colourful review of some of the most impactful presentations given over the ten years of PV CellTech, starting with the first conference in Malaysia in March 2016. Finlay will pick out talks that have become insightful given the evolution of technology and the changes in mainstream production from multi to mono, to PERC and bifacial, through to n-type variants including TOPCon, HJT and back-contact. The session will be interactive in nature, allowing audience members to reflect on some of their highlights and what current topics being covered at PV CellTech in recent years are most likely to have an impact on the sector out to 2030.
Speakers