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Amcor Expands Availability of Lightweight, Flexible Solar Front Sheets Made from Solvay’s Halar EC

Eliminates structural weight limitations, rigidity imposed by glass, improves integration of PV modules into complex shapes.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Solvay Specialty Polymers announced at Intersolar North America 2015 that films extruded from its Advanced Halar 500 ethylene chlorotrifluoroethylene (ECTFE) resin helped enable two lightweight, yet durable photovoltaic (PV) front sheets developed by Amcor.   Now available in the U.S., Amcor’s lightweight, flexible Rayotec and Ceramis front sheets greatly expand options for advanced solar energy applications by eliminating structural weight limitations and rigidity imposed by glass, thereby im...

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