INDIA

SOUTH AFRICA

BRAZIL

GREECE

MEXICO

CHINASYRIA

IRAN

TURKEY

UKRAINE

SWEDENUNITEDKINGDOM

UNITED STATESOF AMERICA

CMG 1,000ergSol

Star Energy 16,275

Desarrollo**

Altawfeer16,800

Solarpolar 900

HelioCaminus

Brassolar

Kingspan Renewables 30,000 (20,000)

Aslanlar Metal (Assolar)

SolarUK 100

Bipin Engineers 5,000Electrotherm 34,500

Anu Solar 32,000

Tata Power 23,000Supreme Solar 112,455

Laxmi Agro 14,000

Kosol Hiramrut 30,000Illusions4Real

Greentek 30,000

Inter Solar 8,000

Photon 9,880

Redren Energy 38,000 Sudarshan 86,000

V-Guard

Kuzeymak40,000

Solar-San

Nuetech 20,500

Jain Irrigation 10,000

Velnet 17,000

The Standard Product 1,000Frantor**46,000 (600)

Sunmaxx 2,000

Waterlite(Maxlite)

Anadolu 60,000

Calpak-Cicero

Your Home400

Apricus

Brassolar

Central Europe

MACEDONIA

GERMANY

UNITED KINGDOM

ITALY

POLAND

CZECH REPUBLIC

SWITZERLAND

FRANCE AUSTRIA HUNGARY

SLOVAKIA

ROMANIA

GREENoneTEC17,000

Regulus4,000

VacuSol 800Viessmann

AkoTec21,000

Carl Capito 1,200

Consolar

Eurosun 10,000

Narva 10,000

OrangeEnergy 800Ritter 80,000

RSF Solar 1,800

Soltark

Solvis 1,900

Westech Solar 35,000Augusta Solar 3,150

D&K Solar 1,500

Spring Solar1,500

Sunerg Solar344

Thermics

Camel Solar 2,000

LeovSolar Tubes

Solar-Tech 400

Sunex3,500

Projprzem Eko4,000Watt

Panosol Power 1,800

Thermosolar

Makrotherm 3,000

AMK-Solac10,000

Hewalex 3,000

CHINASolarpolar Solarpolar Solarpolar 900900900

Aslanlar Metal (Assolar)Aslanlar Metal (Assolar)Aslanlar Metal (Assolar)

China

CHINA

Apricus 64,000

Arise New Energy24,000 (16,000)

Ariston 13,000

Sunda 80,000 (25,000)

Eurosun 10,000

Himin* 3,100,000 (2,300,000)

Dr. Xia 1,000 (120,000)

Linuo Paradigma 1,050,000

Sunshore 850,000Baoguang 15,000 (420,000)Oupairineng

Sunrain* 5,400,000

Tsinghua*300,000 (700,000)

Viessmann

Wankang

High-New Technology*100,000

XNE Group 40,440 (18,000)

Yaohui

Shentai 100,000

WesTech

World map of vacuum tube collector manufacturers 201488 companies in 24 countriesPublisher: SUN & WIND ENERGY, www.sunwindenergy.comEditor: Bärbel Epp, Stephanie Banse, www.solrico.comLayout: EILERS-Media, www.eilers-media.de Date: October 2014Sources: Manufacturers’ information, own research

Caption production site for the assembling of vacuum tube collectors production site for vacuum tube collectors, which are also sold as OEM products production site for vacuum tube collectors and vacuum tubes production site only for vacuum tubes22,000 produced gross area of vacuum tube collectors in 2013 [m2](22,000) produced gross area of vacuum tubes in 2013 [m2]

Yaohui Companies which produce glass tubes in their factory are marked in bold.* These Chinese companies run several production factories and are listed at their main production site.** Mexico: Desarrollo started assembling vacuum tube collectors in 2014 and Frantor began pilot production of vacuum tubes in 2014.

ExampleAkoTec, Germany, assembled vacuum tube collectors with a gross area of 21,000 m2 in 2013 and sold parts of it to other branded companies. If vacuum tubes and vacuum tube collectors are produced in the same factory, both figures are mentioned. In 2013 the Irish manufacturer Kingspan Renewables produced vacuum tubes with a gross area of 20,000 m2 and vacuum tube collectors with a gross collector area of 30,000 m2.

AkoTec21,000

KingspanRenewables30,000(20,000)