Company History
Nines Photovoltaics was established in 2010, with a dedicated team that is focused on bringing new innovative process technology, machinery and equipment to the international Photovoltaic (PV) solar cell manufacturing industry. The company is based in Dublin, Ireland.
Nines Photovoltaic is a sister company of Nines Engineering, Irish company set up in 2007, and built up based on the founders experience, knowledge and contacts within the Semiconductor manufacturing industry.
In 2009 the management team identified opportunities in the Photovoltaic (PV) space in which they could bring their extensive Semiconductor industry knowledge, and add value to the sector by developping novel processing technologies.
Nines Engineering continues to trade and specialises in process and equipment services to OEMs, academic institutes and device manufacturing end-users. For further information see
www.nines-engineering.com
Areas of expertise:
- Technical project management
- Production focused process engineering (design, manufacturing and Troubleshooting)
- Turnkey process equipment with integrated control systems
Meet the team
Edward Duffy, BSc. Eng.
- Founder and CEO of Nines Photovoltaics
- Involved in semiconductor capital equipment business since 1996
- Worked with Applied Materials & Magnetic Solutions in senior roles.
Laurent Clochard, MSc. Physics
- CTO - joined 2008
- 12 years of Research and product development experience
- Founding member of Magnetic solutions (spun out of Trinity College - Ireland) and Alyxan (spun out of the CNRS - France).
Simon Forsyth, BBLS, MSc Banking & Finance
- CFO - joined 2010
- Involved in Corporate Banking since 1999
- Worked with Ulster Bank Ireland Ltd (part of RBS Group) and NIB (then part of National Australia Group)
John Clarke, CEng MIEI
- COO Chief Manufacturing/Operation Officer - joined 2011
- Ex Operations and supply chain manager at Machine Vision Technology
- Ex Managing director of Agilent Ireland
