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Materials
Bridgestone, Solutia Boost Solar Films
by Jean-François Tremblay
July 26, 2010
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 88, Issue 30
Tire manufacturer Bridgestone will spend $94 million to expand capacity at a Japanese plant that makes adhesive films for solar modules. Bridgestone will raise ethylene vinyl acetate film capacity by almost 60% to 6,600 metric tons per year in 2012. Meanwhile, Solutia says it will build facilities in Suzhou, China, to produce the same material. Solutia provided no details other than a 2011 opening date. Waterproof, transparent ethylene vinyl acetate films are used to fasten silicon-based cells to the glass surface of solar modules.
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