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Sign upMay 19, 2019
Absolicon
Härnösand
In the past, solar concentrators were hand-made in Sweden and exported to different customers around the world. With the manual produciton, 2-3 solar collectors were produced every day. A slow pace, but they had the best optical efficiency for a small parabolic trough in the world. Now with the production line has been installed with Absolicon, a solar collector is produced with a cycle time of 6 minutes. In full production, the production line makes 100 000 m2 (70 MW) of solar collectors annually. The production line has been used to produce parabolic solar collectors for clients like Birra Peroni, Carlsberg and Colgate-Palmolive. Solar collectors have also been produced for building installations in solar district heating and desalination.
The 3,000 m² of solar collectors produced so far by the production line will save 10,000 tons of CO2 emissions over the next 25 years, assuming they replace natural gas. With a profit margin of €20 per square meter, the break-even point is achieved with annual sales of 30,000 m² of solar collectors, equivalent to a value of €6 million.
To transform food, textile, chemical and beverage industries industry to run on solar thermal instead of fossil fuels, a regional Robotic Production Line will mass-produce 100 000 m2 (70 MW) of the T160 parabolic solar concentrating collector every year. The collectors will be mounted next to industries and replace fossil fuel. Thanks to the local production, the solar collectors can be locally built and installed and locally financed. This will result in solar thermal being cheaper than heat from oil and gas and in some sunny places even cheaper than coal and waste. After 10 years of full production, the fields of solar collectors built with the production line will save 120 000 tons of CO2 annually, replacing natural gas.
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