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Sustainable Energy Partners with Plexus Corp for Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain Strategy
May 5, 2010 |Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
TORONTO, ON, Canada — Sustainable Energy will use Plexus’s technical and manufacturing expertise to maintain lowest manufactured cost on solar cell inverter modules. Plexus will add manufacturing flexibility to Sustainable Energy’s SUNERGY photovoltaics inverter design production, enabling rapid response to changing demand profiles from different geographical markets. Sustainable Energy expects the partnership to shorten supply lines and reduce working capital costs.
Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd (TSX V:”STG”) is a solar electric technology developer and manufacturer of next-generation solar inverters. EMS provider Plexus will manage Sustainable Energy’s electronics supply chain for all markets and manufacture Sustainable Energy’s SUNERGY inverters for the European market.
Under a memorandum of understanding between the parties, Plexus will supply the critical power electronics sub-assemblies of the SUNERGY inverters for both European and North American markets and will be responsible for final assembly in Europe of SUNERGY inverters for European markets. Inverters for Ontario and other North American markets will be manufactured in Ontario by the OEM to meet Ontario’s domestic content thresholds for the Province’s solar Feed in Tariff (FiT) Program.
Sustainable Energy currently manufactures all sub-assemblies for SUNERGY products in China with final assembly and testing of products destined for Ontario at a sub-contracted facility in Cambridge, Ontario. The Company is in the final stages of selecting a site in Ontario where it will establish a manufacturing and distribution center for the Province and for other North American markets.
“The partnership with Plexus offers better access to critical electronics components, reduction of direct manufactured cost, an ability to respond more quickly to changes in market demand for product, as well as a natural hedge to foreign exchange effects by geographically aligning our manufacturing with our key markets,” said Sanjay Razdan, president & CEO of Sustainable Energy.
“We’re focused on engaging with some of the most promising companies in the Renewable Energy sector. As costs continue to escalate for traditional energy sources, we believe Sustainable Energy’s advanced inverter technology will play a substantial role in the maturation of the solar energy market sector”, said Jim DiBurro, Plexus VP, Industrial and Commercial Market Sector.
The SUNERGY low voltage design uses the same power electronics platform interchangeably among a range of different products to meet the various regulatory specifications and changing demands of diverse geographical markets. This is a proven strategy to reduce manufactured cost with higher-volume manufacturing of electronics sub-assemblies and commonality of design improvements across a range of products.
For more information about Plexus Corp., visit www.plexus.com. For more information about Sustainable Energy Technologies Ltd., visit www.sustainableenergy.com.
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