The deframing machine. Pneumatic positioning clamps square the module, the cutting head releases the frame legs and the press frees the frame from the laminate. One module per minute, 1 t/h in the published brief.
Read more →Releases the front — or front and rear — glass from the laminate once the frame and junction box are off. Configured to the glass specification your buyer will accept.
Read more →A station, not an afterthought. Box, cable and solder-bearing parts come out before glass handling so copper never enters the cullet.
Read more →The front-end stations combined into one sequence with transfer conveying, output bays and a single control philosophy.
Read more →Size reduction and separation of delaminated material into glass, metal, polymer and silicon-bearing fractions.
Read more →Infeed, transfer, elevation and output handling — the equipment that decides whether a line actually flows or keeps stopping.
Read more →| Process step | Equipment | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frame removal | Automatic frame removal machine | Framed module, any glass build | Frameless laminate + aluminium frame sections |
| Junction box removal | Box and cable station | Frameless laminate with box attached | Laminate without box + copper-bearing box and cable |
| Glass separation | Glass removal machine | Laminate without frame or box | Glass pane(s) + delaminated sheet |
| Size reduction | Reduction equipment with extraction | Delaminated sheet | Reduced material, contained |
| Separation | Screening, magnetic, eddy current | Reduced material | Glass, metal, polymer, silicon-bearing fractions |
| Handling | Conveying and output handling | Material at any station | Material at the next station or in its output container |
If the bottleneck is manual deframing, one machine solves it. If the bottleneck is that nothing is sorted, the problem is the whole front end, not one station.
The specification of what you can sell decides how many separation steps you need. Buying separation you have no buyer for is capital sitting still.
Automation replaces labour, not feedstock. A semi-automatic arrangement with one operator per station is often the correct answer at low volume.
Tell us at quotation stage what you would add next. Machines placed with the future line in mind cost less to extend later than machines placed individually.
Process logic only. The selector applies the rules described on this page to your answers; it does not produce capacity, yield or price figures.
Buy the station that removes your existing bottleneck — for framed modules that is almost always the frame removal machine. It produces a clean aluminium stream you can sell immediately, and it protects the quality of everything processed afterwards.
What to insist on: tell us the intended end configuration when you order. Transfer heights, utility connections and space reservations cost almost nothing to plan in and are expensive to retrofit.
Buy frame removal, junction box removal and glass separation as one sequence with a single control philosophy. This suits plants that already know their feedstock, have secured their outlets and want to reach a steady output from the first month.
What it buys: one set of transfer heights, one containment scope, one commissioning exercise — and operators who learn the whole line rather than one machine.
Add pyrolysis, a tunnel kiln, an aluminium melting line or silver recovery once the front end is producing a consistent, characterised feed — and once a specific fraction has an outlet that justifies the capital and the recurring cost.
What to establish first: the permit, the effluent route and the assay capability. In most projects those, not the process equipment, decide whether the stage happens.
Send the module type, the condition, the through-put you need and the output you must produce. We will tell you which stations are required and which can wait.
The minimum credible front end is a frame removal machine for framed modules, a junction box and cable station, and a glass separation step, plus conveying between them. If your feedstock is frameless or thin film, the frame removal step drops out and the process starts at the junction box. Size reduction and separation are added when you have a buyer who requires sorted fractions.
Yes, and most of our projects start that way. The important thing is to tell us the intended end configuration at quotation stage, because output heights, transfer points and utility connections are much cheaper to plan in than to retrofit.
Machines are tested in our works, crated and loaded into containers. We supply drawings for foundations and utility interfaces, and we provide erection supervision, commissioning and operator training at your site. The frame removal machine's transport envelope of 2.5 m high by 2.23 m wide is container-friendly by design.
For framed crystalline-silicon feedstock, the frame removal machine comes first, because it is the step that decides the value of everything downstream and it is the step most plants are doing by hand. For frameless or thin-film feedstock the first purchase is usually the glass and containment stage instead.
Tell us what arrives at your gate and what has to leave. The engineering team replies with the station configuration, the scope boundary and the information still missing before drawings start.
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Three details are enough to start: what modules you receive, how fast you need to process them, and what output you have to produce.
