GT Solar Corporate Overview

GT Solar Incorporated is an industry leader globally providing essential technology, turnkey manufacturing and equipment solutions across the photovoltaic supply chain, enabling the establishment of successful photovoltaic businesses. Based in Merrimack, New Hampshire, USA, GT Solar’s products are used by companies worldwide.

Experience that Means Success for Our Customers

GT Solar Incorporated is a leading provider of turnkey and equipment solutions to companies for manufacturing products that harness solar power. We equip our customers with the invaluable technical, manufacturing and marketing expertise needed to start and successfully operate a photovoltaic manufacturing business. GT Solar Incorporated is unique because we offer turnkey and equipment solutions, along with a staff of in-house experts, for all three components of the solar value chain—wafer, cell and module fabrication lines. In 2006, GT Solar Incorporated entered the polysilicon production market and supplies Siemens-type reactors to customers who will begin polysilicon production. Our integrated solutions are designed for low-cost PV manufacturing. We provide customers with vendor and consumable materials specs that will shorten the purchasing cycle. We offer facilities consultation and engineering to provide the infrastructure for our customers fabrication lines and quality control guidelines to immediately improve the bottom line. GT Solar Incorporated is dedicated to achieving success with every line we design and every customer we serve. Working with customers worldwide since 1994, the core expertise of GT Solar Incorporated lies in three areas, all targeting mass production in photovoltaics:

Supporting Your PV Process Today and In The Future

GT Solar Incorporated is a market leader in multicrystalline growth technology, with an evolving line of products designed to enhance performance and lower cost. GT Solar Incorporated’s Directional Solidification System (DSS) furnaces produce a large segment of the world’s multicrystalline silicon ingots. With hundreds of machines delivered worldwide, the DSS furnace is one example of a system from our development program. Multicrystalline ingots are now grown faster and at lower cost than ever before.

GT Solar Incorporated's Polysilicon Division, located in Missoula, MT, USA, entered the polysilicon production equipment market in 2006 to help fuel the fast-growing PV industry. This division of GT Solar Incorporated provides a Siemens-style reactor and an STC hydrogenation unit to allow our customers' plants to operate in an environmentally friendly closed loop. In addition to supplying polysilicon production equipment and technology, the Polysilicon Division provides services to assist in the facilities design, engineering, and integration of its equipment with the overall layout of the plant.

GT Solar Incorporated collaborates with UCEP (University Center of Excellence for Photovoltaic Research and Education) at Georgia Tech, University of New Hampshire and other private and government research facilities. We work together to advance process knowledge and collaborate with equipment companies to continuously improve our products.

Management Team

GT Solar Incorporated is led by a team of individuals with comprehensive experience in the photovoltaic business and related areas of process and automation technology. Key positions in administration, sales, marketing, engineering and manufacturing are held by highly motivated professionals with dedication and devotion for the business they build. It is the leadership team’s belief that success can only be defined through our customers to whom we are partners and consultants in business.