Australian-made cutter rail for solar modules

Sep 23, 2020 12:19 PM ET
  • Solar market individuals have actually created a brand-new Australian-manufactured rail for PV modules that has actually been crafted to ensure security and also durability, while accommodating the needs of installers that work with residential and business roof projects.
Australian-made cutter rail for solar modules
Image: Clenergy/Solar Cutters

It's not often that solar installers are inquired about their demands for vital components. However, solar-mounting producer Clenergy has introduced a totally Australia-made, 4,400 mm ended up rail for solar modules, based on input from solar experts devoted to promoting quality in the market. A few of the sales of the Cutter Rail-- an installing system crafted to fit the larger, higher-output photovoltaic panels now preferred by the market-- will additionally be routed back right into the group that added to its specs.

Clenergy is an Australian business that focuses on the advancement, production and marketing of solar-mounting gear. Solar Cutters is a 2,500-member market group that provides fast, knowledgeable participant comments and help on issues come across while setting up solar panels on rooftops throughout Australia.

" We only allow in individuals who are going to demonstrate worth," Jack "Longy" Long, the founder and supervisor of Solar Cutters, informed pv magazine. "If they are a maker they need to have the ability to give technical support within a practical timeframe."

Clenergy's National Channel Manager, Sean Guzzi, fits the requirements. Guzzi is second-generation solar-- his daddy, Mario Guzzi, founded Clenergy as an inverter supplier, with partner Daniel Hong, in 2007. Eventually solar installing equipment became the focus of business, but competitive elements implied the business has actually constantly manufactured its parts in China.

Long as well as Guzzi became close friends through Solar Cutters, each identifying the other's dedication to high quality. "This is a fantastic market," claims Long. "We're very enthusiastic about top notch installations."

They hatched out a strategy that would certainly begin to understand some of their private as well as joint ambitions: Guzzi believed the expense of manufacture of top quality aluminium products in Australia was getting to parity with item made in China, and also wanted to begin making several of the business's elements on home ground; Long was additionally inspired to support Australian manufacture as well as intended to hold even more networking and training occasions for Solar Cutters, yet required financing that came without strings connected.


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