Underwriters Laboratories Announces Applied Materials' SunFab Line Modules ... MarketWatch (press release)

04.05.10

NORTHBROOK, Ill., May 04, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Underwriters Laboratories (UL), a world leader in safety testing and certification, announced today that photovoltaic modules produced by an Applied Materials SunFab Thin Film Line(TM) are the first to qualify for UL's Master Certification Program for the solar industry. The program, introduced in 2009, is an enhanced service offering with streamlined testing and certification procedures intended to help photovoltaic (PV) module and production equipment manufacturers get products to market faster.

With this qualification under the Master Certification program, Applied Materials' customers who produce modules on a SunFab(TM) production line are candidates for UL's Fast Track Certification Program. The Fast Track program allows manufacturers to greatly reduce the time and cost to certify the modules produced on their SunFab lines. The SunFab Thin Film Line, which produces one of the world's largest and most powerful solar panels available today at 5.7 square meters, is an automated, glass-in/panel-out manufacturing line for amorphous and microcrystalline silicon-based thin film PV manufacturing.

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