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Sun & Wind Energy 12/2009 70 T he vacuum tube industry is centred in China and Europe, with a respective manufacturing capaci- ty ratio of 60:1 in accordance with the market. In 2007, 22 million m 2 of collector area was installed in the Asiatic country if you go on the figures from Runqing Hu from the Chinese Center for Renewable Energy Development, while in Europe the figure was only 377,000 m 2 for the same period. It is thus no sur- prise that only two European companies made it into the top 15 of collector manufacturers for this year’s map: Ritter Solar from Germany and Kingspan Renewables from Great Britain (see fig. 2a, page 72). Fig. 2a lists the companies in order of the collector area manufactured in 2008, while fig. 2b is in the order of the amount of vacuum tube area produced in 2008. The ran- kings contain a certain inaccuracy, as something wasn’t considered in this year’s questionnaire. In China, the area of vacuum tubes is taken as the plane of the absor- ber surface, whereas in Europe the gross area of the collector module is used. Thomas Stamm, the Sales Representative of Sunshore Solar Energy Industry in Germany, quantifies this difference: “Our standard model is declared as having 3.9 m² in China, while according to DinCertco the collector has 4.94 m² of gross area – a difference of 27 %.” According to their own statements, the manufac- turers in fig. 2a manufactured a total of 9.1 million m 2 of collector area last year. They wish to grow by 43 % in 2009 (not including Himin and Sangle). Whether Vacuum tube industry on an upward trend This is the second world map of the vacuum tube industry to appear in S&WE. For the first time, almost all the large Chinese manufacturers have taken part in the survey, so that it has been possible to put together a ranking of the top manufacturers. The Asiatic players are growing rapidly and wish to strongly increase their exports. Solar thermal World map of vacuum tube collector manufacturerS
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Sun & Wind Energy 12/200970
The vacuum tube industry is centred in China and Europe, with a respective manufacturing capaci-ty ratio of 60:1 in accordance with the market. In
2007, 22 million m2 of collector area was installed in the Asiatic country if you go on the figures from Runqing Hu from the Chinese Center for Renewable Energy Development, while in Europe the fig ure was only 377,000 m2 for the same period. It is thus no sur-prise that only two European companies made it into
the top 15 of collector manufacturers for this year’s map: Ritter Solar from Germany and Kingspan Renewables from Great Britain (see fig. 2a, page 72). Fig. 2a lists the companies in order of the collector area manufactured in 2008, while fig. 2b is in the order of the amount of vacuum tube area produced in 2008. The ran-kings contain a certain inaccuracy, as something wasn’t considered in this year’s ques tionnaire. In China, the area of vacuum tubes is taken as the plane of the absor-ber surface, whereas in Europe the gross area of the collector module is used. Thomas Stamm, the Sales Representative of Sunshore Solar Energy Industry in Germany, quantifies this difference: “Our standard mod el is declared as having 3.9 m² in China, while accord ing to DinCertco the collector has 4.94 m² of gross area – a difference of 27 %.”
According to their own statements, the manufac-turers in fig. 2a manufactured a total of 9.1 million m2
of collector area last year. They wish to grow by 43 % in 2009 (not including Himin and Sangle). Whether
Vacuum tube industry on an upward trend
This is the second world map of the vacuum tube industry
to appear in S&WE. For the first time, almost all the large
Chinese manufacturers have taken part in the survey, so
that it has been possible to put together a ranking of the
top manufacturers. The Asiatic players are growing rapidly
and wish to strongly increase their exports.
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these ambitious aims are accurate can only be clearly con-firmed in next year’s survey. The questionnaire was also sent out in Chinese, so hopefully there should not have been any confusion regarding production capacities and truly manufactured volumes.
Line production of solar tubes at Himin in Dezhou, China Photo: Sven Tetzlaff
Fig. 1: Export percentages for 2008 of the Chinese vacuum tube collector manufacturers on the world map on pages 74/75. Linuo New Material and Baoguang manufacture vacuum tubes.
Apricus 100 %Shentai 90 %Westech 80 %Sunpower 70 %Sunda 60 %Xianke 45 %Shana/Gomon 40 %Tsinghua 22 %Linuo New Material 22 %Huayang 20 %Sunrain 15 %Baoguang 15 %Tiafe 12 %Sunshore 10 %Linuo Paradigma 10 %
Export percentages of Chinese manufactureres
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Fig. 2a: Ranking of the largest vacuum tube collector manufacturers on the world map 2009, listed in order of the volumes produced in 2008. Himin and Sangle have not provided a forecast for 2009. The company Tianpu Solar Energy Group is not listed in the ranking, as it unfortunately did not return the questionnaire. The company Tianmushen, which has also previously always been considered as being in the top ten, has now stopped doing business. Apart from this, the selection of Chinese companies below 12th place is rather arbitrary, as there are several hundred manufacturers with a production volume of around 50,000 m2. The smaller companies listed here are strong exporters and took part in the survey for this reason (see fig. 3). Source (all data in this article): Market survey Solrico/S&WE, September/October 2009
Fig. 2b: Ranking of the largest vacuum tube manufacturers from this year’s world map in order of the volumes produced in 2008. Although they belong to the same company group, Linuo New Material and Baoguang have been listed separately as they filled in their questionnaires independently of one another. Himin, Sunrain and Sangle have not provided forecasts for 2009. Sunrain pro duced only half of its vacuum tubes inhouse, for the 1,445 million m2 of collector area which it produced in 2008. Altogether, the listed companies stated a production volume of 11.8 million m2. They aim to grow by an average of 22 % this year (not including Sunrain, Sangle and Himin).
The purely brandname manufacturer Himin has concentrat ed on the higherprice collector market segment in China. Photo: Himin
Himin
Sangle
Sunrain
Huayang
Linuo Paradigma
Tsinghua
Sunshore
Tiafe
Ritter
Sunpower
Westech
Kingspan Renewables
Sunda
Shentai
Shana Group
500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 2,500,0000
Produced area of vacuum tube collectors in 2009 [m2]
Produced area of vacuum tube collectors in 2008 [m2]
Vacuum tube collector manufacturers
500,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 2,000,000 2,500,000 3,000,000 3,500,0000
Produced area of vacuum tubes in 2009 [m2]
Produced area of vacuum tubes in 2008 [m2]
Linuo New Material
Himin
Sangle
Huayang
Tsinghua
Baoguang (Linuo Solar)
Sunshore
Sunrain
Sunpower
Kingspan Renewables
Sunda
Westech
Vacuum tube manufacturers
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The Chinese manufacturers which took part in the survey can be split into two groups. One group contains the smaller companies, which are concen-trating on exports and generally only as-semble the collectors in-house. The sec-ond group contains the really large man-ufacturers – over 500,000 m2 of output a year – with a large vertical range of manufacture and a low export share of approx. 10 %. This differentiation can also be seen clearly in fig. 1, where the companies are listed in order of their ex-port percentages for 2008. The compa-nies in the second group are looked at in more detail below.
The top six: a look at the details
Leading the ranking is Himin Solar Company, with over 2 million m2 of collector area a year – a purely brand-
name manufacturer which has con-centrated on the higher-price collector market segment in China, and which has not yet sold noteworthy volumes abroad. The same is true for Sangle Solar Energy, the number two in fig. 2a, which has also only been active on the home market so far. The fast-grow-ing company has worked its way up to a peak position in the industry over the last few years, and according to their statements produced a total of 1.7 million m2 of vacuum tube collec-tors in 2008. Sangle only supplies un-pressurised water in tube systems. The company has concentrated main-ly on low price systems and has a good sales network in rural areas.
Sunrain Solar Water Heater Manu-facture is the youngest of the compa-nies at the top of the ranking. It spe-cialises exclusively in solar thermal technology and was only set up in
Production of vacuum tubes at the Chinese market leader Linuo Photo: Linuo
Kingspan Renewables 1982Tsinghua 1984Sangle 1987Huayang 1991Tiafe 1993Linuo New Material 1994Himin 1995Sunda 1996Sunshore 1997Baoguang 1998Sunrain 1999Shentai 1999Ritter 2000Linuo Paradigma 2001Westech 2002Sunpower 2005
Fig. 3: Market entry: Kingspan/Thermomax, Great Britain, and Tsinghua, China, are the oldest vacuum tube collector manufacturers listed in the ranking. The survey wanted to know the “Start of production of solar thermal technology”.
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Central Europe
INDIAPAKISTAN
MACEDONIA
GREECE
CHINA
THAILAND
MALAYSIA
FRANCE
BELGIUM GERMANY
GREAT BRITAIN
ITALY
POLAND
HUNGARY
CZECHREPUBLIC
SWITZERLAND
AUSTRIA
China
ESE
AMK26,500/32,000 Greenonetec
50,000
Thermics4,000
Akotec8,000/15,000
Consolar10,000/10,000
Kloben38,000/40,000
Narva12,000/55,000
Philippine2,500/5,000
Ritter Solar211,264/140,000
SchottRohrglas
Viessmann
Vermos2,200/2,600
Sunex1,000/5,000
Regulus3,600/4,500 Watt
23,000/20,000Hewalex1000/500
Projprzem-Eko4,000/4,000
Bachus 600
Spring Solar500/1,000
Calpak30,000/45,000
Solar Tubes 3,000/5,000
Ravotek 4,500/1,500
Microsolar
Borosil Glass Works 2,000/8,000Hiramrut 7,672/13,000
Anu Solar 12,000/50,000
Xianke
Westech 100,000/400,00050,000/70,000
Linuo New Material* 10,000/16,000 2,800,000/3,700,000
Apricus 34,753/38,000
Tsinghua 20,000/60,000
Sunda60,000/55,00080,000/75,000
Eurocon/Viessmann
Ariston 16,000/18,000
KingspanRenewables80,000/60,000
KingspanRenewables20,000/15,000
KingspanRenewables80,000/60,000
Tata BP Solar 20,000/60,000
Ariston 4,000/8,000
NRG 250/1,000
Nuetech SolarRashmi
Baoguang(Linuo Group)1,000,000/1,200,000
Tsinghua350,000/500,000
1,020,000/1,200,000
Tiafe 240,000/300,000
Shentai 50,000/100,000
Sangle* 1,700,000
Sunrain* 1,445,000/2,245,000
Shana Group (Gomon)50,000/100,000
10,000/30,000
Huayang 1,410,000/1,692,000
Himin* 2,000,000/2,000,000
Sunpower150,000/200,000200,000/250,000
Linuo Paradigma 929,000/1,285,000
Sunshore 755,000
World map of vacuum tube collector manufacturers50 companies in 16 countries
Publisher: Sun & Wind Energy, www.sunwindenergy.comEditor: Bärbel Epp, www.solrico.comLayout: Eilers-Media, www.eilers-media.de Date: November 2009Sources: Manufacturers´ information, own research
Legendeproduction site for the assembling of vacuum tube collectors
production site for vacuum tube collectors and vacuum tubes
production site for vacuum tubes and vacuum tube collectors,which are also sold as OEM products
production site for vacuum tubes only
22,000 produced square metres of collectors in 2008
22,000 produced square metres of collectors in 2009 (planned)
Narva Companies which produce glass tubes in their factory are bold
* These Chinese companies run several production sites which havebeen depicted as just one point in the map.
ExampleRitter Solar assembles vacuum tube collectorsand sells some of the collectors to otherbranded companies. The German manufacturer
produced 211,264 m2 of collector area in 2008 and plans to manu-facture a collector area of 140,000 m2 this year.
Borosil Glass Works combines all three manu-facturing steps under one roof. The Indiancompany produces glass tubes and vacuum
tubes and assembles vacuum tube collectors. Last year 2,000 m2 of collectors left the factory in Gaujarat, in 2008 8,000 m2 are planned.Generally, the collector area in China is measured as the plane of the absorber surface. In Europe the gross area of the vacuum tube collector is considered.
Ritter Solar211,264/140,000
BorosilGlass Works2,000/8,000
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Central Europe
INDIAPAKISTAN
MACEDONIA
GREECE
CHINA
THAILAND
MALAYSIA
FRANCE
BELGIUM GERMANY
GREAT BRITAIN
ITALY
POLAND
HUNGARY
CZECHREPUBLIC
SWITZERLAND
AUSTRIA
China
ESE
AMK26,500/32,000 Greenonetec
50,000
Thermics4,000
Akotec8,000/15,000
Consolar10,000/10,000
Kloben38,000/40,000
Narva12,000/55,000
Philippine2,500/5,000
Ritter Solar211,264/140,000
SchottRohrglas
Viessmann
Vermos2,200/2,600
Sunex1,000/5,000
Regulus3,600/4,500 Watt
23,000/20,000Hewalex1000/500
Projprzem-Eko4,000/4,000
Bachus 600
Spring Solar500/1,000
Calpak30,000/45,000
Solar Tubes 3,000/5,000
Ravotek 4,500/1,500
Microsolar
Borosil Glass Works 2,000/8,000Hiramrut 7,672/13,000
Anu Solar 12,000/50,000
Xianke
Westech 100,000/400,00050,000/70,000
Linuo New Material* 10,000/16,000 2,800,000/3,700,000
Apricus 34,753/38,000
Tsinghua 20,000/60,000
Sunda60,000/55,00080,000/75,000
Eurocon/Viessmann
Ariston 16,000/18,000
KingspanRenewables80,000/60,000
KingspanRenewables20,000/15,000
KingspanRenewables80,000/60,000
Tata BP Solar 20,000/60,000
Ariston 4,000/8,000
NRG 250/1,000
Nuetech SolarRashmi
Baoguang(Linuo Group)1,000,000/1,200,000
Tsinghua350,000/500,000
1,020,000/1,200,000
Tiafe 240,000/300,000
Shentai 50,000/100,000
Sangle* 1,700,000
Sunrain* 1,445,000/2,245,000
Shana Group (Gomon)50,000/100,000
10,000/30,000
Huayang 1,410,000/1,692,000
Himin* 2,000,000/2,000,000
Sunpower150,000/200,000200,000/250,000
Linuo Paradigma 929,000/1,285,000
Sunshore 755,000
World map of vacuum tube collector manufacturers50 companies in 16 countries
Publisher: Sun & Wind Energy, www.sunwindenergy.comEditor: Bärbel Epp, www.solrico.comLayout: Eilers-Media, www.eilers-media.de Date: November 2009Sources: Manufacturers´ information, own research
Legendeproduction site for the assembling of vacuum tube collectors
production site for vacuum tube collectors and vacuum tubes
production site for vacuum tubes and vacuum tube collectors,which are also sold as OEM products
production site for vacuum tubes only
22,000 produced square metres of collectors in 2008
22,000 produced square metres of collectors in 2009 (planned)
Narva Companies which produce glass tubes in their factory are bold
* These Chinese companies run several production sites which havebeen depicted as just one point in the map.
ExampleRitter Solar assembles vacuum tube collectorsand sells some of the collectors to otherbranded companies. The German manufacturer
produced 211,264 m2 of collector area in 2008 and plans to manu-facture a collector area of 140,000 m2 this year.
Borosil Glass Works combines all three manu-facturing steps under one roof. The Indiancompany produces glass tubes and vacuum
tubes and assembles vacuum tube collectors. Last year 2,000 m2 of collectors left the factory in Gaujarat, in 2008 8,000 m2 are planned.Generally, the collector area in China is measured as the plane of the absorber surface. In Europe the gross area of the vacuum tube collector is considered.
Ritter Solar211,264/140,000
BorosilGlass Works2,000/8,000
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1999 (see fig. 3). In 2008 it secured 3rd place in the ranking with 1,445 million m2. Exports are taken very seriously in this company and the aim is to steadily increase the percentage of exports, which currently stands at 15 %. The company has also ad-justed the product spectrum accordingly, so that now only 80 % consists of the unpressurised water in tube systems so typical for China (see fig. 4)
Linuo Group has the largest vertical range of manufacture of the companies in the top group. It owns glassworks for solar glass tubes, runs auto-mated production lines for vacuum tubes and halls for the assembly of collectors and systems. Figure 5 describes the structure of the company group. Linuo achieves the highest production volumes at the glass tube level. With four factories at Linuo New Material, a subsidiary belonging directly to the group, plus a joint venture with Baoguang, the out-put last year reached a total of 8.2 million m2 of glass tubes.
At the level of vacuum tube manufacture, Linuo New Material and Baoguang together reached an im-pressive 3.8 million m2 in 2008. Abroad, these prod-ucts are sold under the brand name Linuo Solar. Among the customers of Linuo New Material is also the group-internal joint venture Linuo Paradigma, which carries out the assembly and sale of collector systems in China under its own brand name Linuo Paradigma. This manufacturing level is to be strongly expanded, as can be seen in the planned 38 % growth for this year that the company stated in the survey. At Linuo Paradigma the share of unpressurised water in tube collectors lies at 91 %. The remaining collectors are fitted with U-pipe absorbers.
The size of the Chinese market throws up cer-tain question marks. If you go on the figures con-firmed in various presentations by Runqing Hu, stat-ed as 30 million m2 of newly installed collector area in 2008, and assuming a flat plate collector market share of 7 %, then the market share for Linuo glass tubes would be 28 %. The company itself spoke of a market share of 58 %, however, in discussions with the international web portal solarthermalworld.org. This is now the second sign that the Chinese collec-tor market may not be as large as previously as-sumed (see page 69). The author would be pleased to receive any information relevant to this matter ([email protected]).
The long-established company Tsinghua Solar Systems is continuing to lose in market share. Until just a few years ago the company was considered to be one of the top three, together with Himin and Linuo. In 2008 it only reached 6th place in the ranking for collector manufacturers (fig. 2a). The state-owned company is well set up technologically and it works closely together with Tsinghua University. As is also the case for Huayang Solar Energy, Tsinghua states that it has a comparatively low percentage for the typically Chinese unpressurised water Sydney tubes (65 %). Fig. 4 shows that 22 % of production is for further-developed tubes. The export percentage will decrease from 22 % in 2008 to 15 % in 2009.
Tube types
80%
6%12%
20%60%
20%
22%
5%
65%
8%
Sunrain
Huayang
Tsinghua
Unpressurised water in tube systems
Sydney tube/double glass tubes with heat pipe
Sydney tube/double glass tubes with UPipe
Single glass evacuated tubes with different types of metal absorbers
Sydney tube/double glass tubes with heat pipe
Sydney tube/double glass tubes with UPipe
Unpressurised water in tube systems
Sydney tube/double glass tubes with UPipe
Unpressurised water in tube systems
Advanced Sydney tube/double glass tubes
Single glass evacuated tubes with plain absorber
2%
Fig. 4: Percentages for the various tube types in 2008, with Sunrain Solar Water Heater Manufacture (total: 1.45 million m2) on the top, Huayang Solar Energy (total: 1.41 million m2) in the middle, and Tsinghua Solar Systems (total: 370,000 m2) on the bottom.
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And two comments to conclude on: • the Internet addresses of all the companiescan be found at www.sunwindenergy.com/swe/pdf/adresses.pdf• further analyses from the worldwide survey are to be published on the web portalwww.solarthermalworld.org
The Linuo Group
Linuo New Material glass tubes (four factories)
7.2 million m2 (2009: +31 %)
Baoguang glass tubes 1 million m2
(2009: +20 %)
Linuo Paradigma 929,000 m2 (2009: +38 %)
Linuo New Material vacuum tubes (two factories)2.8 million m2 (2009: +32 %)
Baoguang vacuum tubes
1 million m2 (2009: +20 %)
Fig. 5: Company structure and production volumes in 2008 for the Chinese Linuo Group. The planned growth for this year is given in brackets. Source: company figures
World map of vacuum tube manufacturers: two fundamental improvementsThis year, the world map of the vacuum tube industry is appearing for the second time. Approx. 60 manu-facturers around the world were asked to take part, and 50 did so. Their factories have been entered on-to the world map on pages 74/75. Two fundamental improvements were made to the survey over the one from the previous year. The questionnaire was fully translated into Chinese in order to avoid misunder-standings, and additionally, the various vacuum tube types were depicted as cross- sectional diagrams, as the technical terms are very different in China and Europe.
These changes have already borne fruit; this year the number of Chinese companies which claim to make glass tubes themselves has come down strongly – from seven to three. Linuo New Material, Baoguang and Westech have confirmed making business in this field. Apart from this, a number of manufacturers specialising in tube glass for solar technology have now been identified, and these will now also receive a questionnaire next year.
Bärbel Epp
