Dyesol Opens New Manufacturing Facilities to Meet Global Demand for DSC Materials and Technologies

The Australian minister for energy and resources, Martin Ferguson AM MP today officially opened Dyesol’s new manufacturing facilities in Queanbeyan, New South Wales. This facility will enable Dyesol  world leader in Dye Solar Cell (DSC) materials and technologies to fast track its commercialisation strategy to  take full advantage of the solar photovoltaic market forecast to be worth $US 30 billion in 2008.

In addition to increasing its manufacturing capacity in Queanbeyan, Dyesol has also established a facility in North Wales, United Kingdom (UK). These facilities will enable Dyesol to effectively service its collaboration partners and subsidiary companies operating in UK, Italy, Switzerland, Korea, and Singapore.

Dyesol’s Dye Solar Cell (DSC) technology is sometimes called artificial photosynthesis because it uses a dye analogous to chlorophyll to capture the energy from light, releasing electrons which are captured and conducted as electricity in a nanoparticulate titanium dioxide layer.  Dyesol is the leading supplier of all the input materials, test, and manufacturing equipment and related technology to leading research institutes, developers, and major corporate moving to the manufacture of 3rd generation DSC solar panels.
 
Speaking at the opening, Dyesol’s Global Managing Director Dr Gavin Tulloch said “Dyesol will continue to be part of technical collaborations and business partnerships in those countries where companies, research institutes and governments recognise and foster an environment that promotes the rapid commercialisation of DSC technology.

“Fortunately for Dyesol, DSC is the only third generation technology ready to be scaled up,” Dr Tulloch added.

Dyesol Chairman Mr Richard Caldwell went on to say that “DSC is the technology for our times.

“As governments around the world legislate to meet the consequences of global warming, significant new opportunities and new applications are emerging as Dyesol continues to work with more organisations to develop new products including Defence and security applications, the 3Cs market and buildings facades,” Mr Caldwell said.

The advantage of Dyesol’s technology over conventional silicon based photovoltaic technology is its lower cost,  greater output of electricity in real and low light conditions, and the ability to directly incorporate it into buildings as active electricity generating glass facades or steel roofs..

In addition to the opening of new facilities in Queanbeyan today, new facilities in Wales will be officially opened later this month.  The Welsh facility will help support the Dyesol/Corus collaboration that has also been awarded an assistance package by the Welsh Assembly Government, to accelerate the commercialisation of DSC technology onto steel sheeting.  Corus is the world’s fifth largest steel producer.

Dyesol Italia srl recently announced it will partner with Italian utilities giant ERG Renew and the world’s leading façade company, Permasteelisa to develop and commercialise next generation solar panels for buildings.

Similarly, Dyesol has established a joint venture company with Timo Technology in Korea (called Dyesol-Timo) to commercialise DSC products in in Seong Nam city in Gyeonggi province.