Austrian thermal solar energy company seeking business partners

The Montana Governor’s Office of Economic Development has been contacted by Solar-Plexus (http://www.solar-plexus.at), an Austrian company working in the solar thermal heat recovery business. Their main business is making products that reduce the energy consumption of buildings and to assure that a building’s energy is utilized as effectively as possible. Their customers include hotels, restaurants and private residences. Solar-Plexus is the exclusive export office for FUTUS Energietechnik Gmbh (http://www.futus.at) who develops and manufactures all of their product range.

Solar-Plexus, along with FUTUS are looking for business partners worldwide to produce their products under license as this this will save on shipping costs.
Solar-Plexus has provided the following description of the products they are looking to have manufactured under license:

Thermal-solar panels

Parts:

– Aluminum frame (special profile developed by FUTUS; parts or know-how can be delivered)

– Back cover made of simple metal-sheet

– Isolation made of rock wool (can be bought on the market)

– Nickel-Black-Chrome absorber strips (can be bought on the market)

– Copper pipes

– Prismatic solar-glass (we buy it in the US)

Tools: metal-saw, welding tools (for the absorber), silicon-gun, hammer
(no special tools needed)

Sun-Save-Tank

Parts:

– Isolation modules

– Rubber-bag

– layer column

– cover- und ground plate

– metal-coat

Tools: FUTUS outsourced the production of the isolation modules to a company which is experienced in producing poly-styrol (EPS) parts.
FUTUS outsourced the production of the rubber bag to a company which is experienced in welding EPDM-Foils.
The layer columns are parts made of plastic-pipes. Simple welding tools are needed. The plastic pipes can be bought on the local market.

Climatic-wall

Parts:

– Pipes

– Collecting device

Tools: FUTUS is buying the pipes on the market. The collecting device is made by FUTUS. Montana locations would need a special injection-mold and a special tool to weld the pipes and the collection-device together. Raw material: polypropylene-granule.

Exchanger-stations

Parts:

– Heat-exchanger

– Pumps

– Copper and plastic pipes

– Frame

– Fittings

All the parts of the exchanger stations can be bought on the local market.
No special tools needed.

According to Solar-Plexus all the products can be manufactured by an experienced plumber and only the Climatic-wall modules are a bit more complicated. A minimum qty. of produced items should be a part of the agreement-negotiations with a potential partner.

They believe a potential partner could be:

– An innovate plumber who wants to become a producer

– A manufacturer of heating equipment (oven, pellets-burner,…)

– A manufacturer of tanks who wants to increase its product range with solar-products

– A company of the plastic or metal industry who wants to build up a new product range on the thermal-solar and energy-recovery market.

They claim their products are very simple to produce.

(If you do contact the Managing Director about this opportunity, please tell him you saw it on MATR.net. Thank you.)

The contact with Solar-Plexus is Klaus Haase, Managing Director, who can be contacted at: [email protected].

Tom Kaiserski

Economic Development Specialist

Governor’s Office of Economic Development

State Capitol

PO Box 200801

Helena, Montana 59620

406-444-5472

Fax 444-3674