Solimpeks is a Turkish

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 company dedicated to manufacture and market solar thermal and photovoltaic thermal hybrid solar collector

Photovoltaic thermal hybrid solar collector

Photovoltaic thermal hybrid solar collectors, sometimes known as hybrid PV/T systems or PVT, are systems that convert solar radiation into thermal and electrical energy...

s worldwide. The company's broader product line is exported to 60 countries, with European Union countries comprising about 70% of sales.

Solimpeks PV-T products are the first hybrid panels which are listed on the Microgeneration

Microgeneration

Microgeneration is the small-scale generation of heat and power by individuals, small businesses and communities to meet their own needs, as alternatives or supplements to traditional centralized grid-connected power...

 Certification Scheme. Solar keymark

Solar keymark

The is an official quality mark of the European Committee for Standardization , developed with to overcome the varying testing and certification requirements in different EU countries...

, CE mark are one of the 22 certificates owned by the company.

History

The father company of Solimpeks was founded in 1979 as the first solar thermal collector manufacturer in Turkey. In 2001, the third generation started their own business with a broader view and achieved 100% growth yearly between 2004 and 2008. The new hybrid panels of Solimpeks were awarded "Alex's Cool Product of the Week" by Building Green and "Green Heroes Award" by Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

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Facilities

Solimpeks employs many specialized workers in the enterprise's units located in Konya

Konya

Konya is a city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The metropolitan area in the entire Konya Province had a population of 1,036,027 as of 2010, making the city seventh most populous in Turkey.-Etymology:...

 (headquarters), Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, Bavaria, Germany and Sevilla, Spain.

Solimpeks opened its first foreign branch office in Bavaria, because of the high demand for solar systems in Bavaria

Bavaria

Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

 and Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg

Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...

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Solimpeks has sales offices in 60 countries.

See also

• List of photovoltaics companies
• List of companies of Germany
• List of companies of Turkey

External links

• Solimpeks Worldwide
• Solimpeks Germany
• Solimpeks Hybrid Panels