China's photovoltaic equipment companies have fully equipped with solar cell production line equipment, in 2010, some products such as diffusion furnace, plasma etching machine, and a small amount of export, can provide 10 kinds of solar cell production line equipment in 8, including 6 kinds of (diffusion furnace, such as off sub etching machine, washing machine, quartz tube cleaning machine, low temperature drying furnace) has been dominant in the domestic production line, 2 kinds of (tube PECVD, rapid sintering furnace) and imported equipment, but the share of the increase, 3 kinds of automatic screen printing machine, automatic sorting machine, flat type PECVD.
The components of the production of the layer press, the solar simulator, etc. in the industry to obtain a wide range of applications. At the beginning of 2011, the electric power 48 introduced after two years of performance test of the multi wire cutting machine and a polycrystalline silicon ingot furnace. So far, our country has realized the full localization of photovoltaic equipment.
High purity silicon material purification equipment in the key 24 of the rod reduction furnace in the national "863" plan has also been developed to support the success of.
May 2011, the 2010 annual PV equipment manufacturers released by Research VLSI rankings show that 48 became the first among the top ten photovoltaic equipment manufacturing industry in china. VLSI research are renowned for their unparalleled accuracy and innovative marketing research methods and coverage of the industry rapidly pulsating precise insight and celebrated. According to the market research data show, 48 operating revenue of $2.95 billion impressive record beat Sweden a well-known equipment manufacturers, strong entered the global photovoltaic equipment manufacturer first phalanx, ranked "2010 ten global photovoltaic equipment manufacturers" Ninth first break the rankings for a long time by the European and American equipment manufacturing large-scale enterprises dominate the landscape pattern. In Europe and the United States photovoltaic equipment manufacturing enterprises long entrenched the grim situation of international and domestic photovoltaic equipment market, 48 A revitalization of national industry responsibility, hard exploring in the course of development of electronic equipment, has successfully developed a washing machine, diffusion furnace, PECVD, etching machine, high and low temperature sintering furnace, single crystal furnace, ingot furnace and other solar photovoltaic key equipment, developed from a single device to the single equipment and process integration, and from the whole line equipment development to the whole line equipment and technology combined with "the whole line turnkey" (turnkey) scheme of the system, is rapidly becoming the largest solar cell manufacturing equipment suppliers. Rely on the rich experience in equipment manufacturing, process technology and the entire line of construction, 48 already have the ability to build "smart" photovoltaic equipment and photovoltaic cell production line, and in the direction of rapid forward.
48 solar photovoltaic equipment in the domestic users have been established a good reputation, the industry has been widely recognized, more and more customers benefit from the use of domestic equipment. It can be said that China's solar PV industry in just a few years have to face the international competition ability, to obtain the high speed development of technology and international standards, but also has incomparable low cost advantages, and maintenance of low cost of labor and operating costs, low prices (average only imported equipment 1/3) of domestic equipment, the main reason for the low cost of investment. Otherwise PV industry 95% market in Europe and the United States and Japan's industrial characteristics, it is hard to imagine the domestic enterprises can be much higher than the same foreign enterprises procurement cost of silicon materials to the international market competition.

Application of domestic equipment in production line
In 2002, a number of enterprises in China and the advanced technology, through cooperation and the introduction of advanced technology, after many times of technological upgrading and upgrading, domestic solar cell key equipment have been applied in the domestic production line, so that the basic solar energy battery manufacturing equipment supply capacity.
A serious shortage of high-purity silicon material for inexpensive domestic single crystal furnace enterprises provides an excellent opportunity for development, in recent years, dozens of new crystal pulling enterprises a large order, making the domestic equipment companies is always in a state of full load production, and drew the Japan, South Korea and China's Taiwan bulk orders. So many years have not met the unpopular scene directly gave birth to the 2006 four photovoltaic equipment manufacturing enterprises orders amounting to billions of dollars, the momentum from the 2007 than is no less situation, this is our country electronic equipment industry years of unprecedented prosperity.
In addition, despite the amorphous silicon solar cells are not yet formed the scale of production, but the growth rate has been significantly accelerated, the corresponding amorphous silicon battery equipment has also attracted many companies to try to the same as the same as the whole line of equipment and technology to enter the process.
Compared with the international advanced level, domestic solar cell production equipment of the most critical equipment, diffusion furnace, plasma etching machine, washing machine, etc.. Tube PECVD, rapid sintering furnace and the international advanced level there is a gap, but not much, has begun to use in the production line, the market share gradually expanded, cost-effective obvious advantages. There is no flat type PECVD, the other two key equipment automatic screen printing machine and automatic sorting machine because the core technology can not bypass the foreign company's technology patent blockade, has not yet achieved substantial breakthrough, the overall level and the gap between the larger, the domestic main production lines almost all use the high price of imported equipment.
In wafer processing equipment, the high level of the joint venture company is close to the international advanced level, but due to the high price, the application of the photovoltaic industry is limited, but it is a low cost and low level single crystal furnace. By the shortage of silicon material rare opportunity to form mass production, occupy most of the domestic market and bulk exports.
Production equipment components in the laminating machine, high-end automation products with the international advanced level is almost the same, with obvious technical characteristic, but occupy most of the market share is the low-end products.
The technical level of the silicon material purification equipment and the gap of foreign products is relatively large, only the production of sporadic products.
2010 will provide 3600000000 yuan market for equipment
Since 2003, as of December 2006, China's new standard solar cell production line (25MW/) 47 in a short span of four years. According to the current average investment of 30000000 yuan per line equipment, the equipment market is as high as 1400000000 yuan. If the count to solve the shortage of silicon and for the purchase of materials and manufacturing equipment such as polysilicon ingot furnace, single crystal furnace, cutting machine, wire saw, such as investment, total amount of domestic equipment market over 25 billion yuan. Which is about 1/3 of the market occupied by domestic equipment, a total of nearly $300000000 for the national economy in recent years, saving more than 2000000000 yuan for the user, has been in the solar PV industry has a preliminary discourse. In 2005 the total sales of about 330 sets of related equipment, sales of nearly 400000000 yuan, in 2006 it reached 700000000 yuan.
According to the industry's top ten development plan, to 2010, China will increase the production capacity of 3000MW. Even if the use of the current domestic equipment and imported equipment mixed collocation's domestic mainstream configuration program, but also at least 3600000000 yuan for the equipment manufacturers to provide the market. If the imported equipment is calculated, the equipment investment is 8400000000 yuan.