by jbs051310d3 — May 17, 2010—Underwriters Laboratories (UL), global providers of safety testing and certification, recently announced that photovoltaic modules produced by an Applied Materials SunFab Thin Film Line are the first to qualify for UL’s Master Certification Program for the solar industry.
The Master Certification 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 production line are candidates for UL’s Fast Track Certification Program, which allows manufacturers to greatly reduce the time and cost to certify the modules.
The SunFab Thin Film Line, which reportedly 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.
