#Industry ·2026-06-18
Driven by the "Double Carbon" goals, China's photovoltaic industry has seen explosive growth. However, a thorny problem has emerged: the first batch of photovoltaic modules put into use have gradually entered the retirement phase. How to deal with the piles of waste solar panels? Especially the aluminum frames wrapped around the modules, which are time-consuming and labor-intensive to disassemble manually, and violent disassembly easily damages the glass and battery cells, causing headaches for many recycling companies. Traditional disassembly dilemma: low efficiency, high cost, and significant losses "In the past, we relied entirely on workers using crowbars and wrenches to disassemble manually. A skilled worker could handle at most 50 panels a day, and the deformation rate of the aluminum frames reached 30%, with broken glass being a common occurrence." Zhang, the head of a photovoltaic recycling company in Jiangxi, admitted that labor costs have been rising year by year, but efficiency has not improved significantly, squeezing the company's profits. This is not an isolated case. At present, the domestic photovoltaic recycling industry is generally facing the bottleneck of "difficult disassembly": low manual disassembly efficiency, high labor intensity, and serious material loss, which directly restricts the development pace of the photovoltaic circular economy. Jiangxi Mingxin Breaks the Deadlock: Automated Disassembly Machines Precisely Solve Industry Pain Points Targeting this market gap, Jiangxi Mingxin Automation Equipment Co., Ltd. spent two years on research and development and launched a new generation of solar panel aluminum frame disassembly machines. This equipment adopts intelligent clamping and hydraulic separation technology, and through precise mechanical calculation, it achieves the "lossless separation" of aluminum frames and glass panels. "Our core advantage is the 'three no-damage' - no damage to aluminum frames, no damage to glass, and no damage to battery cells." The technical director of Mingxin introduced that the equipment is equipped with an adaptive pressure sensing system, which can automatically adjust the disassembly force according to the specifications of the panels, with a complete recovery rate of aluminum frames exceeding 98% and a glass breakage rate controlled within 1%. Efficiency Revolution: Processing 120 Panels per Hour, with a Payback Period of Only 8 Months The efficiency data is even more impressive. The equipment can process more than 120 standard photovoltaic panels per hour, which is more than 10 times faster than manual disassembly. Calculated at 8 hours of work per day, the single machine can process 960 panels daily, equivalent to the workload of 20 workers. According to the actual test data of a Jiangsu customer, after introducing the equipment, the monthly processing capacity of the enterprise has increased by 8 times, the labor cost has decreased by 60%, and the value-added part of aluminum recycling has already covered the investment in the equipment. The ease of operation has also been a breakthrough. With a touch-screen human-machine interface and one-click start, ordinary workers can get started after half an hour of training. The equipment also integrates a dust collection system, meeting environmental protection requirements. Market Opportunities Under the Policy Wind With the official implementation of national standards, photovoltaic recycling is transforming from an "optional choice" to a "mandatory requirement". Industry forecasts that by 2030, the amount of photovoltaic modules retired in China will exceed 1.5 million tons, forming a recycling market worth hundreds of billions of yuan. "Equipment is not a cost, but a ticket to enter the market." A industry observer pointed out that against the backdrop of increasingly stringent environmental supervision and rising labor costs, automated disassembly equipment has become a core competence of recycling enterprises. Jiangxi Mingxin's product portfolio already covers monocrystalline, polycrystalline, thin-film, and other types of components, and provides customized solutions. Conclusion From manual disassembly to intelligent separation, Jiangxi Mingxin has used technological innovation to fill the key link in the photovoltaic industry's closed loop. When the efficiency improvement of 10 times is no longer a slogan, and the value of aluminum frame recycling is fully released, the green circular economy path of the photovoltaic industry will become broader and broader. For recycling enterprises at the crossroads of transformation and upgrading, this may be the "efficiency revolution" opportunity worth seizing.
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