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Solutia, 3M Invest In Solar Materials

by Melody Voith
October 18, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 42

Specialty material firms are ramping up products for customers that manufacture solar photovoltaics. Citing increased demand for renewable energy, Solutia has opened a laboratory in Springfield, Mass., to help solar-module makers develop new products with Solutia’s polyvinyl butyral interlayer and ethylene vinyl acetate encapsulant. Meanwhile, 3M will begin high-volume production of its Ultra Barrier solar film for flexible copper indium gallium selenide, cadmium telluride, and organic photovoltaic solar modules. 3M claims the film offers comparable light transmission, moisture-barrier performance, and weatherability to glass.

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