SCHOTT Solar has over 53 years experience in solar technology. The company develops, manufactures, and markets highly efficient receivers, a key component for Concentrated Solar Power plants with parabolic trough technology, as well as innovative, high-quality photovoltaic products.

SCHOTT Solar has over 53 years experience in solar technology. The company develops, manufactures, and markets highly efficient receivers, a key component for Concentrated Solar Power plants with parabolic trough technology, as well as innovative, high-quality photovoltaic products. With crystalline solar wafers, solar cells, solar power modules, and a-Si thin film modules, SCHOTT Solar provides core components in every step of the value chain for the photovoltaic generation of energy.

SCHOTT Solar regards itself as a market and technology leader for receivers for Concentrated Solar Power plants with parabolic trough technology. Based on many years of research and development competence, the company also considers itself as one of the cutting-edge, integrated quality providers of photovoltaic products, both in crystalline photovoltaics and in thin film technology.

Shareholders

SCHOTT Solar is a wholly owned subsidiary of the international SCHOTT Group.

Employees

Currently, SCHOTT Solar employs more than 2,200 people worldwide, 100 of them in research and development.

Global presence

Facilities are located in the United States as well as in Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain and China. Additionally, SCHOTT Solar can rely on SCHOTT’s international sales network.

Our business divisions

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) division

SCHOTT Solar develops, manufactures, and markets highly efficient receivers, one of the key components for Concentrated Solar Power plants using parabolic trough technology. The receivers are currently produced in Mitterteich, Aznalcóllar (Spain) and in Albuquerque (NM, USA).

Photovoltaics (PV) business division

SCHOTT Solar develops, manufactures and markets innovative and high quality photovoltaic products and contributes to essential parts of the value chain with crystalline solar wafers, solar cells, solar electricity modules, and a-Si thin film modules in the Photovoltaics business division.
The photovoltaic products are currently produced in Alzenau, Jena, Valašské Meziříčí (Czech Republic), Albuquerque (NM, USA) and Taicang (CN).