#Industry ·2026-02-24
Under the blazing white lights of the photovoltaic module recycling workshop, stacks of decommissioned solar panels gleam with a faded blue sheen. What struck me most, however, was not the silicon wafers that no longer absorb light, but the silver-white aluminum frames that silently guarded their fragile cores—strong and precise, once the most faithful skeleton of the panels. But on the recycling line, they had now become "shells" that must be meticulously stripped away. A sleek metal machine glided into the workstation, like a slumbering silver dragon awakening. This was the aluminum frame removal machine—its mechanical arm gently lifting the entire photovoltaic panel. A visual sensor slowly scanned the edges and corners, and a flash of blue laser light precisely captured the structure of each aluminum frame. A set of rotating blades then gently pressed against the seams, separating the adhesive layer like a woodpecker pecking at a branch. Another set of steel hooks inserted into the fine crevices, expanding steadily according to a predefined force curve. With a soft click, the disconnected aluminum frames obediently peeled away from the glass substrate, revealing the silicon crystal matrix waiting to be reborn like a cracked nut shell. The entire process took just seven minutes. Workshop supervisor Wang nodded in front of the control screen: "Twenty years ago, it took us three hours to disassemble a single panel, with our thumbs often bleeding from aluminum shards. This machine not only doubled efficiency but also reduced scrapping rates to less than three thousandths of a percent." Pointing to the vibrating box, he added, "The aluminum frames it removes are 99% pure, with almost zero loss during remelting. The integrity of the stripped silicon wafers is even higher, eliminating the need for 'precious metal soup' to flow away anymore." Inside this cold metal body, precision instruments were orchestrating a silent revolution: its distributed sensors wove a neural network, translating every micron of strain into a torrent of data. Multi-axis linkage algorithms decoded the material's stress codes like untangling a chain. As the last aluminum frame slipped toward the furnace, the metallic clatter echoed through the workshop, like a whisper of a strange cycle—the armor that once protected light would be reborn as a new pillar of illumination. Technical engineer Li Wei gently stroked the warm casing of the machine: "This isn't destruction, but the starting point of reinvention. The essence of this machine is extending human hands into microscopic disassembly, giving rigid materials a pulsating cycle of life." The ritual of separating aluminum from light ended at the mechanical fingertips, yet a new spectral chapter unfolded in the furnace's glow. When industrial blades learn to disassemble gently, a green constellation emerges from the wasteyard.
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No. 15 Industrial Avenue, Industrial Park, Shicheng County, Jiangxi Province
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