Wet processing equipment is used in various stages of the solar panel manufacturing process. Panels manufactured using crystalline silicon technology (solar cells built on silicon wafer substrates) use wet processing equipment in both the wafer production and the cell production areas. The wet process steps are generally categorized as cleaning, etching, texturing, rinsing, drying and electroplating. These steps are carried out using either a batch process via wet bench equipment or a continuous process via inline process equipment.