Spire Corp., a provider of turnkey solar factories and capital equipment, has received a contract from ChengDu Tianwei New Energy PV Module Co. Ltd. (Tianwei) to provide multiple systems for stringing and tabbing solar cells and performing end-of-line test and certification.
Spire will provide Tianwei with multiple Spi-Assembler 6000 systems to fully automate the soldering of individual solar cells into strings ready for busing. In addition, multiple Spi-Sun Simulator systems were ordered.
SOURCE: Spire