Swift Solar acquires Meyer Burger IP and plans HJT manufacturing in America

California-based perovskite photo voltaic firm Swift Photo voltaic introduced it has acquired the manufacturing property of Meyer Burger, together with the previous firm’s superior heterojunction technology (HJT) mental property portfolio. This might permit Swift Photo voltaic to scale tandem perovskite-silicon photo voltaic designs with out danger of IP litigation.

Tandem perovskite-silicon designs by Swift Photo voltaic.

HJT pioneer Meyer Burger began within the photo voltaic business as a producing tools developer. Its “SmartWire” designs had been licensed by different manufacturing names. In 2020, the corporate ventured into direct photo voltaic cell and panel manufacturing and gross sales, first opening manufacturing services in Germany earlier than trying on the U.S. market. Meyer Burger operated a 1.5-GW capability photo voltaic panel manufacturing unit in Goodyear, Arizona, for nearly a 12 months earlier than filing bankruptcy in mid-2025.

In June 2025, former Meyer Burger CEO Gunter Erfurt joined Swift Photo voltaic’s advisory board, bringing “an intimate understanding of the challenges and alternatives in scaling breakthrough photo voltaic applied sciences.” It was introduced at present that Erfurt, Marcel Koenig (former Meyer Burger international head of R&D) and remaining manufacturing expertise in Germany would be a part of the Swift Photo voltaic crew to ramp U.S. manufacturing.