BTU International, Inc. (BTUI) Lands Solar Processing Orders
BTU International, a leading supplier of advanced thermal processing equipment and processes to the alternative energy and electronics manufacturing markets, today announced that it has received $5.5 million worth of orders from Asia/Pacific customers for solar processing equipment. Most of the equipment will be for contact formation in a new high-efficiency process for the manufacture of solar cells. The rest of the equipment consists of current-generation metallization systems. Revenue for the orders will be reported during the first half of 2010. BTU chairman and CEO, Paul Van der Wansem, said, “We are very pleased with these wins for our solar…