Dynamic Industry — Solar Panel Recycling

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Dynamic Industry

Clean tech · Net zero

A second life for solar.

End-of-life panels. Resources for tomorrow.

EXPLORE THE PROCESS

01 / SOLAR FIELDS

Built for the sun.

Clean energy begins here. Its materials deserve another life.

Solar fields become a collection of end-of-life panels. One cracked panel is selected and its layers open, then close. Robot arms remove its aluminum frame while the junction box is detached. Glass is lifted and crushed. The remaining laminate enters a shredder, becoming a dark mixed fraction that passes through a gravity separator. Recovered resources continue into six collection streams.

End-of-life solar panels awaiting recovery

01 / A SECOND LIFE

The end of a panel.
The beginning of a resource.

A solar panel's working life ends. Its materials do not. We separate end-of-life modules into recoverable streams, keeping valuable resources in circulation.

Illustration of the separate layers of a solar module

02 / INSIDE THE MODULE

Every layer has value.

Glass, metals and silicon work together to turn sunlight into electricity. Separating those layers is the first step toward their next use.

Aluminum frame
Tempered glass
EVA encapsulant
Silver electrodes
Silicon cells
Copper ribbons
Backsheet
Junction box

03 / MECHANICAL RECYCLING

Separated by process.
Returned as resource.

A sequence of mechanical steps separates the module into material streams. Explore the six recovery outlets below.

Remove the frame
The aluminum frame and junction box are detached and collected separately.
Recover the glass
The protective front glass is separated and reduced to glass cullet.
Shred the laminate
The remaining laminate is mechanically reduced to a mixed fraction for further separation.
Separate by gravity
The mixed fraction passes through a gravity separator to recover silicon and metal-bearing streams.