M+W Zander completes solar cells factory for Q-Cells in Malaysia

STUTTGART, GERMANY: Engineering company M+W Zander has designed and built a new solar cell manufacturing facility for Q-Cells, Malaysia, and has handed over the facility on schedule.
This major project was completed within a tight construction time frame of less than eight months to achieve Ready for Equipment. The three-storey solar-cell factory with eight production lines has an annual output of 500 megawatts (peak).

This major order encompassed the complete value chain from site master planning, detailed design through to procurement and construction management followed by hook-up of all process equipment. In addition to the site master planning M+W Zander was also responsible for design and co-ordination of the process media systems within the newly developed science park.

A multinational team of highly motivated M+W Zander engineers from Germany and Malaysia began work for the site master plan in February 2008. Completion of site backfill, allowed for the 1st piling on 15th May last year. Successfully achieving “Ready for Equipment” by 31 December 2008.

“Thanks to the close collaboration of our teams within M+W Zander Group we could accelerate the project enourmously to meet the challenging timeframe”, said Martin Beigl and Helmut Kurzboeck, Managing Directors of M+W Zander in Germany and Asia.