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SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES Announces Delivery of First Coating Machine for Silicon Solar Cells

SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES AG / Product Launch

01.12.2009

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Press release

SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES Announces Delivery of First Coating Machine for
Silicon Solar Cells

• First commissioning of SINGULAR coating machine in a production line
  for silicon solar cells

• New automation module developed

Kahl am Main, December 01, 2009 - SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES (SINGULUS)
delivered the first inline coating machine for anti-reflective coating of
silicon solar cells with the product name SINGULAR to a European
manufacturer of silicon solar cells. In 2008 SINGULUS developed a
trend-setting concept for a coating machine for silicon solar cells with
the product name SINGULAR. The machine integration know how, which SINGULUS
TECHNOLOGIES has proven in the automation of CD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc
production machines, was an optimum starting point for the development of
the new SINGULAR plant.

With the SINGULAR coating machine the production of the anti-reflective
layer on solar wafers is automated. With a particularly high quality of the
anti-reflective layer measuring nanometers only, the light transmission and
passivation properties are improved and therefore the energy efficiency of
the produced cells enhanced.

The AR-coating with the SINGULAR machine is an important component in the
production process of solar cells and ties directly to the value-added
chain of the wet-chemical cleaning with LINEA machines. LINEA is STANGL's
new inline machine for wet-chemical cleaning and etching of crystalline
solar wafers with horizontal product transport. SINGULUS developed a
proprietary, fully-automated wafer handling system for the integration and
connection of the wet-chemical cleaning and etching steps. The wafer
handling system is built in modules and automates the transport of the
silicon wafer, e.g. from the cleaning process in a LINEA machine to the
AR-coating in the SINGULAR machine.

SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES together with STANGL will systematically expand the
Solar activities. STANGL is one of the well-known providers of wet-chemical
machines for both the crystalline silicon solar technology as well as for
the thin-film solar technology. Combined with STANGL's machines SINGULUS
TECHNOLOGIES offers the key-technology for a crystalline silicon solar cell
production line with wet-chemical, vacuum coating and wafer handling
technology.

The goal is to strengthen the position for production equipment for solar
cells over the next few years.

SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES AG, Hanauer Landstraße 103,

D-63796 Kahl/Main, ISIN: DE0007238909, WKN: 723890

Contact:

Maren Schuster, Investor Relations, Tel.: + 49 (0) 6188 440 612,

Bernhard Krause, Corporate Communications, Tel.: + 49 (0) 6181 98280 20 /
+49 (0) 170 9202924

01.12.2009 Financial News distributed by DGAP. Media archive at www.dgap-medientreff.de and www.dgap.de

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Language: English
Company: SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES AG
Hanauer Landstrasse 103
63796 Kahl am Main
Deutschland
Phone: +49 (0)6188 440-105
Fax: +49 (0)6188 440-110
E-mail: bernhard.krause@go-metacom.de
Internet: www.singulus.de
ISIN: DE0007238909
WKN: 723890
Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr
in Berlin, München, Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Hamburg

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