SWHN - .055 x .10. Maybe this article attracted the recent buying interest: Excuse the poor google translation from French :)
"ENERGY MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2013
SWISSINSO, the company colors solar panels
the small Lausanne company has developed a technology to give color to the PV to make it more attractive.
By Daniel Saraga
Elegant, solar energy? Rarely, with its bulky tasteless color panels. But the Lausanne SWISSINSO company wants to prove otherwise. Using a technique that allows coloring photovoltaic and thermal solar panels, sapling Nasdaq hopes to convince individuals and businesses that solar energy can be an aesthetic architectural choices. Its panels "Kromatix" are more dapper or, choice, more discreet than a little dull blue usual modules.
Especially, the efficiency losses due to color are minimal (1 to 3% in relative value) and generate reasonable additional costs (4 to 18%). "Our technology allows us to offer a wide range of colors from blue to ocher, through green and yellow says Rafic Hanbali, CEO of the company. It creates new architectural possibilities, both for the roofs of houses for the facades of commercial buildings. "
SWISSINSO does not produce the panels but partners with manufacturers who can implement the technology. "We are primarily an R & D falls Rafic Hanbali. Our goal is to establish licensing systems or create joint ventures with producers and facade builders. "With this strategy, the company avoids having to invest significantly to install a production line, and protects extremely low prices that decimated the solar industry over the past three years. "The price level does not affect us only indirectly: the share of the cost related to the colorization increases if the module price decline, but it is very reasonable," said Rafic Hanbali.
Financial balance for
The first contracts were signed in spring 2013: the facade of an office building in Collombey (VS), a building in Lausanne, a demonstration house in London and a building at the EPFL. Revenues are expected to fall in 2013 and the financial balance could be achieved by 2014 - good news for the company, which had previously sold nothing since its creation in 2006. SWISSINSO began by developing a solar system for water purification. But the aircraft had not been sold. "It lacked a clear business strategy SWISSINSO when I joined in 2012," said Rafic Hanbali.
Henning Wicht, head of the solar market at IHS, a consultant in information and technical data, commercial project is not yet won. "The collapse of margins in the sector has cooled investors. To be convinced of the economic model, I should see a strong signal, such as a partnership with a construction giant that can provide volume, such Bouygues in France. And colored modules are not an entirely unique offer. The German company Sunways also produced and stopped since because of small volume sold. But perhaps the timing SWISSINSO will prove more favorable. This niche market is growing."
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