Agenda (2025)

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? 

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.

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?

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.

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.