Solar glass furnace commissioned in USA
NSG Group’s has started up its float furnace to produce TCO (transparent conductive oxide) coated glass for solar panels in Luckey, Ohio.
The 500,000ft2 production facility was built as part of the 38 billion yen investment plan announced in May 2018 to expand production capacity of TCO glass to support the growing solar market.
The investment is part of a long-term supply agreement with USA-headquartered First Solar Inc., which operates the Western Hemisphere’s largest photovoltaic (PV) solar manufacturing footprint in north west Ohio.
Manufactured with the online coating technology, in which a conductive oxide on the glass surface is formed during its passage through the float line, NSG’s TCO glass is very durable with a wide range of applications.
Online coating also enables cost-effective production of coated glass in high volume.
