Goldgräber-Stimmung: Startup Europe’s largest recycling facility for solar modules

(BSW, Symbolbild)Silicon, Glass, Plastic, Aluminum and Silver: A Magdeburger Start-up-Unternehmen will transform the solar module into its component.

The solar module has a lifespan of 25 years, but can go further. Aktuell is working on recycling PV modules and it is not that simple yet. A Magdeburg start-up will build a large European Solar Recycling Facility.

In June I received the Magdeburger Solar Start-up Solar Materials Investor Fund in the amount of 12.2 million euros. With the money that will become the inzwische Anlage of the Unternehmens in Magdeburg, it will become a base in southern Germany. Solar Materials will not produce any PV modules, but ask the following question: Ausgediente Solar module is recycled.

The Verfahren is gestaltet sich actuell nor schwierig. Solar modules are able to create a high spirit lifespan of 25 years by covering the flowy silicon bolts with plastic and glass. This description is clear and is a revision.

Silver from the solar modules can be recycled

The most commonly used solar modules have been secured and removed, allowing the file components to be sorted and recycled. So take a look at the EU Directive on electronics and electronics, before: 80 Prozent der Gesamtmenge von PV-Modulen müssen were recycled. Once the standard portal is open, you can get a quote for the recycling of glass and aluminum from the solar modules. All the elements also contain silver in the modules – a precious material that cannot be recycled or profit-making. Allerdings Kracht Zilver nur 0.07 Prozent der Masse eines Photovoltaik-Moduls aus.

“The concern of the Silber is the economic kicker”, explains Solar-Materials-Geschäftsführer Fridolin Franke in conversation with the Standard. Provided silver can be used to recover 50 percent of the Rohstofferlöse in PV Recycling. Solar Materials has developed its own process with a very clean design of the solar modules, the Geschäftsführer Franke “more stufige Delaminierung” does not. Denn: “If the module is once finished in Bruchstücken, it will be quicker, the Silber will be perfect”, so Franke.

Solar Materials ensures that the waste disposal and recycling facilities of the Euro pro solar module are a profitable choice. This is not the case with the fall: “The relationship is not completely complete,” says Franke. It’s not like there’s anything going on and it’s all done by the testing of machines. When the year begins and ends, “it could become profitable”, then the Solar-Materials-Chef. “We know our quality materials, we will be happy with the quality of our materials and our costs will be borne daily.”

Laut der Tageszeitung Volksstimme soll das neue Werk in Magdeburg in April 2025 firmly signal. The smaller Anlage im Süden Deutschlands soll schon Ende 2024 in Betrieb gehen. Since 20 years have passed since the end of the year, 50 years of progress will be expected. General Manager Franke is responsible for the success of its own development processes: “If both lines are in operation, the largest PV recycling standard in Europe will die, and we will no longer be able to get an attachment from the hut.”