High purity selenium, tellurium and indium evaporation materials & Highly efficient and environmentally sustainable recycling services
Umicore Precious Metals Refining (UPMR): Our products for the Photovoltaic Industry
UPMR manages one of the largest precious and special metals recycling operations world wide. Our complex production flow sheet allows us to recover more than 17 different metals. We have furthermore developed a dedicated process to recover indium, gallium, selenium and tellurium from CIGS production waste. These metals are key components of the absorber layers found in CIGS & CdTe solar panels.
Umicore Precious Metals Refining - A full range of services that makes us different:
- Application know-how
- Advanced metals management
- Optimized logistics and supply chain
- Worldwide local support
- ISO certified industrial sites (ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001:2000 and OHSAS 18001:1999)
- Proven track record with a large customer base spread over 3 continents
Benefits of partnering with Umicore Precious Metals Refining
- Vertical integration, from special metals production to production waste recycling
- Optimized metals and risk management
- Security of supply
- Various purity grades and shapes available
- One stop recycling service for CIGS production waste
- Fully transparent business model, supported by our certified internal lab
Our special metal capacity
| Tellurium |
| Capacity: 150 t/y |
| Quality: 2N5 |
| Forms: powder, ingots |
| Indium |
| Capacity: 50 t/y |
| Quality: 4N, 4N8 |
| Forms: ingots, shots, shells |
| Selenium |
| Capacity: 600 t/y |
| Quality: 2N5, 3N, 4N5, 5N, 5N+ |
| Forms: powder, shots |
Our CIGS production waste recycling capacity
| Capacity: 50 t/y | ||
| Input material: CIGS production waste | ||
| Output material: Cu, In, Ga, Se |
For technical information, please proceed to the Technical data sheets by clicking here.
To contact us:
Tel: +423 388 7406
Fax: +423 388 7473
petra.vogt-maier@umicore.com
www.thinfilmproducts.umicore.com
Address: Umicore Thin Film Products AG, Alte Landstrasse 8, LI-9496 Balzers