2010 has given witness to the effects of the financial crisis on the PV industry, with some companies surviving, and others washed out. Despite these effects, the industry as a whole has recuperated and is displaying strong growth trends once again.

ENF Ltd is now ready to offer its 2nd edition of the Taiwan Cell and Panel Manufacturers Report. The total data collection process has taken 3 man-months of time, concluding September 2010. Since then, we have been rigorously conducting quality checks, ensuring our status as the most accurate and trustworthy source of PV information on the market.

"I have been using and purchasing information on the photovoltaics industry for nearly 25 years. I have well established sources and am skeptical of newcomers trying to sell reports - often without sufficient detail or rigor. I'm happy to say that ENF's new report meets my standards for quality of information and provides an excellent new source of information on the PV industry."

Located in the Asia-pacific region, Taiwan plays an important role as a global cell supplier and CPV contender, boasting a number of large manufacturers based there.

However, holistic market information has become, if not impossible, incredibly hard to obtain. Adding to the difficulty of the task is the huge amount of information (and misinformation) available in various media. For this reason, access to reliable and detailed information on the Taiwanese PV market can be of great value to those interested in participating in the region.

ENF's native language abilities and long-term industry relationships allow us to gather and present this information, offering you key insights into the Taiwanese PV market, players and trends.

• Marketing and strategy managers who need to have clear information regarding the market .
• Sales people from equipment manufacturers as well as cell, panel, glass and EVA manufacturers.
• System integrators, installers, distributors, power companies who need to contact suppliers.
• Cell & Panel manufacturers wanting to use the data for better decision making.

Cell manufacturers (26 companies)

Arima Group (Arima Photovoltaic & Optical Corporation)
Big Sun Energy Technology Incorporation
CMC Magnetics Corporation (Sun Q Corporation)
Compound Solar Technology
DelSolar
Epistar Corporation
E-TON Solar Tech
Ever Energy
Gintech Energy Corporation
Higherway Electronic
Kenmec Mechanical Engineering (Tainergy Tech )
Lof Solar Corporation
Millennium Communication
Mosel Vitelic Inc.
Mospec Semiconductor Corporation
Motech Industries Inc.
Neo Solar Power Corporation (NSP)
Powercom (Top Green Energy Technologies, Inc.)
Solapoint Corp.
Solarlink Energy
Solartech Energy Corp.
Sunrise Global Solar Energy
Topco Scientific
United Microellectronics Corp.
(Topcell Solar International )
Visual Photonics Epitaxy (VPEC)
Yilian Unitech Solar Cell Plant

Panel manufacturers (32 companies)

ANJI Technology
Apollo Solar Energy
Arima Group
(Arima EcoEnergy Technologies Corporation)
AU Optronics Corp.
AxunTek Solar Energy (AblyTek )
China Electronic MFG. Corporation
Compound Solar Technology
DelSolar
DJ Solar
DS Technology
Ever Bright Corporation
Everphoton Energy Corporation.
Gloria Solar Co., Inc.
Ligitek Photovoltaic
LT Solar
Motech Industries Inc.
NewCore Tek (NCT)
Powercom
PST (Perfect Source Technology) Corp.
RITEK Corporation
SINTEK Photronic Corp.
SolarGate Technology Corp.
Star Power International Ltd.
Suntop Solar Energy
Taiwan Sunenergy Photoelectric
Tynsolar Corporation
WINAICO
Ho Tin Industries Ltd.
Kenmec Mechanical Engineering

Thin-film manufacturers (19 companies)

ANJI Technology
AU Optronics Corp.
AURIA SOLAR
AxunTek Solar Energy
BeyondPV
Chi Mei Energy Corporation
CMC Magnetics Corporation (Sun Well Solar Corporation)
Formosun (Hsinchu Taiwan)
Green Energy Technology Inc.
Jenn Feng Industrial
Kenmos Photovoltaic
NanoWin Technology
RITEK Corporation(PVNext Corporation)
Sinonar Solar Corp.
Sunner Solar Corporation
Sunshine PV Corp.
TAICIS Solar Energy
United Microellectronics Corp. (NexPower Technology Corp.)
Wisdom Inc.

Taiwanese Cell & Panel 2nd EditionDraft Index (08/11/10)

Coverage

Cell manufacturers:

• 26 cell manufacturers included in the survey (up from 18 in the 1st Edition survey)
• ENF collected production and capacity data from 23 companies
• Equipment data has been collected from 17 companies

Crystalline panel manufacturers:

• 32 panel manufacturers included in the survey (up from 21 in the 1th Edition survey)
• ENF collected production and capacity data from 30 companies
• Equipment data has been collected from 20 companies

Thin-film panel manufacturers:

• 19 thin-film panel manufacturers included in the survey (up from 18 in the 1th Edition survey)
• ENF collected production and capacity data from 18 companies
• Equipment data has been collected from 18 companies

Detailed information collected, analysed and presented in an Excel file

Company basic info

• Company Vertical Integration Information
• Taiwanese name
• English name
• Phone number
• Fax number
• Email contact
• Website
• Cell or panel production
• Cell technology

Company data

• Capacity: Data spanning the years 2002 to 2011
• Production: Data spanning the years 2002 to 2011
• Staff number: Data spanning the years 2003 to 2010
• Cell Size mix produced by cell manufacturers: 2007 to 2011
• Cell Size mix used internally for panel production: 2007 to 2011.
• Cell production equipment brand, model and numbers: Details of production equipment used for cleaning, diffusion, etching, PECVD anti-reflection coating, screen-printing, firing, testing, sorting and other processes.
• Panel production equipment brand, model and numbers: Details of production equipment used for laser scribing, tabbing and stringing, laminating, framing, testing and other processes.
• Capacity definition details: The amount that can be achieved at most based on their factory conditions (including all factors that could possibly affect the production) at the end of the year.
• Company key contacts: Contact details and languages spoken for: CEO, Purchasing director, Sales director, and Plant manager.
• Background information on each company (when they were founded, what other PV products they make etc.)
• Miscellaneous extra information on each company obtained from telephone interviews.
• Customer split by geographic regions, 2009 and 2010 (the % of sales to each country)
• Customer split by distribution type, 2009 and 2010 (the % of sales to installers, wholesalers, distributors, OEM, end-users etc.

Analysis Report (Approx. 100 pages)

Taiwanese Solar Cell Manufacturers

Graphs

• Capacity Growth Rates, 2002-2011
• Factory Utilisation Rates, 2002-2011
• Production Capacity (MWp), Total Market, 2002-2011
• Production (MWp), 2002-2011
• Production, Cell Size Mix (MWp), 2007-2011
• Internal/External Utilization (MWp), 2002-2011
• Geographic Flow of Cell Sales, 2009 & 2010
• Customer Split of Cell Sales, 2009 & 2010

Table

• Market Share of Production Capacity, 2002-2011
• Market Share of Production, 2002-2011
• Market Share of External Cell Sales, 2002-2011
• Market Share of Internal Cell Usage, 2002-2011

Taiwanese Solar Panel Manufacturers

Graphs

• Capacity Growth Rates, 2002-2011
• Factory Utilisation Rates, 2002-2011
• Production Capacity (MWp), Total Market, 2002-2011
• Production (MWp), 2002-2011
• Production, Cell Size Mix (MWp), 2007-2011
• Geographic Flow of Panel Production, 2009-2010
• Customer Split of Panel Production, 2009-2010
• Panel Power Ranges (Wp), 2008-2010

Tables

• Market Share of Production Capacity, 2002-2011
• Market Share of Production, 2002-2011

Taiwanese Thin-Film Solar Panel Manufacturers

Graphs

• Capacity Growth Rates, 2002-2011
• Factory Utilisation Rates, 2002-2011
• Market Share of Crystalline vs. Thin-film, 2002-2011
• Production Capacity (MWp), Total Market, 2002-2011
• Production (MWp), 2002-2011
• Geographic Flow of Panel Production, 2009-2010
• Customer Split of Panel Production, 2009-2010
• Panel Power Ranges (Wp), 2008-2010
• Thin-film Production Split by Technology, 2002-2011

Tables

• Customer Split of Panel Production, 2009-2010
• Market Share of Production Capacity, 2002-2011
• Market Share of Production, 2002-2011

ENF collected company data through telephone interviews with each manufacturer (including follow-up emails and faxes when requested).

After collection of the data, each company was emailed their detailed information in Excel format, to check that all facts were recorded properly.

Data Checks were performed using our previous reports and external data sources as references. For those companies that gave partial information, estimate have been made for the missing information based on information given by 3rd parties, logical conclusions (such as manufactured cell sizes based on the cell sizes used in their panel production) and market trends from other Chinese survey participants .

Cell and Panel Manufacturers

The report pack contains:

- Individual profiles of Taiwan cell and panel manufacturers in PDF
- Taiwan market analysis in PDF
- Individual Taiwan cell and panel manufacturer capacity tables (reported) in Excel