Meyer Burger designates brand-new MD to lead solar production transition

• Meyer Burger has appointed a new handling director to lead its transition to become a producer of heterojunction solar cells as well as modules.

Moritz Borgmann is to join the business from 1 February 2021, taking the role of MD and thinking obligation to buy and advertising, product management as well as business growth of the new collection of items.

He joins ex-Conergy and also Q CELLS executive Jürgen Schiffer on Meyer Burger's leading table, who took part late September as CFO.

Borgmann is to develop the company's sales function as well as implement on the company's method following its shift from a devices manufacturer to a cell as well as module producer. He has already started to put together a sales team to lead in its core European markets.

Borgmann holds a doctorate in electric design and also has wide experience in both the semiconductor as well as solar markets, Meyer Burger claimed, having most lately served as a companion at cleantech working as a consultant Apricum.

Gunter Erfurt, CEO at Meyer Burger, claimed Borgmann would certainly be a "excellent addition" to the company's group whilst it undergoes its critical repositioning.

"We are extremely delighted to win Moritz Borgmann, a globally skilled and recognised expert in the field of photovoltaics, for the makeover of Meyer Burger," he stated.

Meyer Burger additionally offered a short update on the development of production centers, mentioning that the set up of centers in Bitterfeld and also Freiberg was going "according to prepare". Manufacturing is slated for Q2 2021-- falling in line with the firm's previous timeline-- with sales of heterojunction modules anticipated to originally start in Western Europe and DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland).

Late last month PV Tech spoke to Gunter Erfurt, CEO at Meyer Burger, who offered a sneak peek of the firm's brand-new strategy and also direction.