Local Assembly and Cost Optimisation

What the Company Says It Does

In its own words: with our feet in most undeveloped countries, we are aware that in many countries people in rural areas need lighting products. With our experience, we support our local partners for local demand customisation, local production and optimising the cost, aiming to spread solar lamps to more people in need.

Cost Optimisation Without Losing the Product

Cost optimisation is listed as one of the six technologies the company develops, alongside MPPT, waterproofing, PAYG, fishing lamp control and LED efficiency. It is treated as engineering work, not as a discount. The saving comes from the panel, the cell, the LED, the moulding and the packing, and each one is a decision you get to see.

Where Local Production Helps

• Import duty and tariff treatment differs for components and finished goods in many markets.
• Local assembly creates local jobs, which matters in programme scoring.
• Packaging and manuals are easier to localise at the point of assembly.
• Spares and warranty repairs get faster.

How We Support It

By supplying to the level of completion the partner needs, by keeping the specification identical across whatever is assembled locally, and by being explicit about which parts of the product tolerate local substitution and which do not. The cell and the charge control usually do not.

The Commitment Behind It

The company states that it is committed to contributing to the improvement of life at the base of the pyramid in rural areas. Every product in the range is built to a price that a rural household can reach.