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Vacuum Tube Technology in Turkey: From 4 to 28% in Five Years
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Dear Solarthermalworld.org Reader, Vacuum
tube technology has been gaining influence on the Turkish market.
Between 2007 and 2011, its share among the newly installed collector
area in the country increased from 4 to 28%, according to the market
statistics of Hakan Alas, General Manager of Ezinç Metal. Since the
government raised the import tax on vacuum tubes in July 2011, Turkey’s
industry has undergone some thorough restructuring. Only one month
later, seven of the nation’s solar thermal system suppliers teamed up in
an effort to construct their own vacuum tube manufacturing unit.
Together, the companies will invest around Turkish Lira 10 million (EUR
4.2 million) in the factory building, including Chinese machinery. The
site’s initial capacity is said to be 4.5 million vacuum tubes per year
(Photo: Kaisun). Continue reading here Stay on top of these and other international trends by reading our monthly newsletter. Best regards The editorial team
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Poland: Tremendous Growth in 2011
by Marcin Czekański
Last
year, the Polish solar thermal market exceeded all expectations. While
Poland became one of the fastest growing markets in Europe, the
installed collector area grew by 70 % to 248,000 m² (174 MWth),
according to Aneta Więcka, solar thermal market expert at the Institute
for Renewable Energy (IEO). Więcka presented these and other figures at
the 5th Solar Energy Industry Forum, which took place in
Cracow, mid-April.The Association of Manufacturers and Importers of
Heating Appliances (Polish acronym: SPIUG), however, thinks that the IEO
estimate may be too high and assumes a two-digit growth rate about 30
to 35%.
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USA: Contractor Runs 7,804 m² Collector System at Prestage Foods Factory
by Bärbel Epp
There
is now one more solar process heat installation in the US – and it is
one of the country’s largest too. Since April 2012, 84,000 ft2 of collector area (7,804 m2)
supply an estimated 100,000 gallon (378,541 litres) of hot water per
day. The water is used in the turkey processor’s company in St Pauls,
North Carolina. The contractor and owner of the solar thermal system is
FLS Energy, one of the major developers of commercial solar thermal
installations in the US.
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Germany: ‘Green Alliance’ Bears First Fruits
by Stephanie Banse
About
one year ago, a German system provider in the field of surface
technology, Eisenmann AG, and German Ritter XL Solar GmbH, a company
specialised in large-scale solar thermal installations, joined forces to
form the "Green Alliance“. Its aim was to promote solar process heat,
especially in paint plants. Now, the alliance has given its first
fruits: the joint venture has got its first order for a 400 m² solar
thermal plant at Zehnder Group, Switzerland.
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Germany: Haier’s Loss Leader Strategy
by Matthias Hüttmann
Internationally
operating Haier Group, the world’s fourth largest appliance
manufacturer, has caused quite a stir prior to the IFH/Intherm (Trade
Fair for Sanitation, Heating, Air Conditioning, Renewable Energies ),
which took place in Nuremberg, Germany, at the beginning of April. The
fax that the Chinese group’s German sales office, Haier Deutschland
GmbH, had sent to plumbers and distributors in Southern Germany showed a
bargain price of EUR 666 for an entire solar thermal hot water system.
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Europe: Heineken Brewery to Install Three Big Solar Plants
by Eva Augsten
The
famous beer brand Heineken has just placed an order for three big solar
thermal plants with a total of 7,270 m² collector area that will
produce the heat required for the brewery’s industrial processes at
different company sites. Two of these systems will be installed at
breweries – one in Valencia, Spain, and one in Göß, Austria - and one
will be set up at a malting plant in Vialonga, Portugal. The systems are
part of the four-year EU project Solar-Brew, which receives EUR 2.6
million from the FP7 programme of the EU.
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