The Dutch solar coating manufacturing site of Covestro helps to harvest up to 4% more energy from the sun in solar installations.
Covestro is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Dutch solar coatings manufacturing site. Beginning as a start-up dedicated to the development of an innovative coating prototype, it is now the largest European independent solar glass coatings plant, allowing the company to offer a wide portfolio of anti-reflective solutions which help to capture up to 4% more energy from the sun in solar installations around the world every day.
ʺAmongst others, today we offer combined anti-reflective and anti-soiling coatings for modules used in desert environments, high power coatings for large utility scale solar parks and special aesthetic coatings for pitch black appearance of solar panels mounted on residential rooftops – mainly in the Netherlands. Our latest innovation is the development and commercialisation of a retrofit coating application for older solar parks,” has proudly declared Robert von Beulwitz, the managing director of the Solar Coating Solution business unit of Covestro. “With the expansion of the industry and of our portfolio, we also saw our employee base rising and I would like to thank each and every one of these colleagues for the relentless efforts they deliver every day.”
The Research & Development teams of the Solar Coating Solutions division started the operations back in 2005 with the development of a new and innovative anti-reflective coating which could be used in several applications. With the worldwide growth of the solar industry around 2010, the company decided to build a dedicated production site within the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen.
“All our different solar coating products were developed in the Netherlands by listening to end market requirements around the world. And all of them are produced by employees in our production facility on the Brightlands Campus in Geleen. I am very proud about this story with which – from the Netherlands – we empower solar energy and harvest more energy from the sun,” has added Aukje Doornbos, the managing director of Covestro in the Netherlands.