Market for glass, other PV materials to grow 50 percent in four years

GTM Research’s latest solar industry report, PV Bill of Materials Outlook 2010-2015, estimates that the market for glass used in manufacturing photovoltaic modules, as well as other materials required in making PVs, will grow 50 percent in four years. The market for glass, pastes/screens, junction boxes/cables, encapsulants, frames, gases/chemicals, backsheets, ribbons and thin-film feedstock could be worth at least $1 billion, and the overall market (excluding polysilicon feedstock), will have grown to$12.8 billion by 2014, or by 50 percent of its 2010 value, according to a Feb. 11 renewableenergyfocus.com report.