Overview
SOLTECH believes the future can be smarter and more beautiful by combining functions like energy generation, lighting, and aesthetics in building materials. The company integrates solar cells and LEDs into facades, glass, and infrastructure through products like ISSOL® (solar cells in building materials), Glassiled® (LED-integrated glass), and OEM+ (licensing technology for custom products).
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- Happy to be part of PV SMART i4.0! 🔆 Great to see the project taking shape, and how Soltech’s production will benefit from data-driven monitoring and predictive quality control. Thanks to IAT der RWTH Aachen University for hosting and to all partners for the inspiring exchange! #PVSMARTi40 #BIPV #SmartManufacturing
- A productive and inspiring PV SMART i4.0 General Assembly in Aachen! Last Wednesday, partners of the PV SMART i40 project gathered in Aachen for our M6 General Assembly. The meeting provided an excellent opportunity to review the progress achieved so far across the three work packages. Strong updates from WP1, WP2 and WP3 demonstrated the commitment and expertise of all project partners and highlighted the significant steps that have already been taken during the first months of the project. From advancing data-driven and
- What if solar technology could become part of a work of art? In Roccavaldina, Sicily, photovoltaic technology takes on a different role at the new Polo Olivettiano. The 32.4 m² façade is designed as a large-scale artistic mosaic, combining photovoltaic modules with a graphic artwork created for the Horcynus Festival 2026, Eutopia. The artwork transforms the façade into more than an energy-generating surface. It becomes part of the identity of the building and of the cultural project taking place around it. The installation was
- What if a canopy could do more than provide shelter? At ULB Solbosch in Brussels, a new 2,417 m² canopy turns an architectural roof surface into an active energy-generating element. The BIPV glass is not added on top of the structure. It is the roof. The photovoltaic modules become part of the building envelope, combining architectural design, weather protection and renewable energy generation in one surface. With 904 BIPV modules and 266 kWp of installed capacity, the canopy becomes an active part of the campus infrastructure. The
- The cells see what you can't. 👀 That's not a metaphor. The ISSOL® Chroma coating reflects the wavelengths your eye reads as anthracite glass. The near-infrared - where silicon cells do their work - passes straight through. You see a uniform spandrel. That spandrel generates 320 kWp. KSP ENGEL ran full-scale visual mock-ups before sign-off. Direct sun, overcast sky, raking afternoon light. The question wasn't how much power. It was: can you see the cells? The answer had to be no before anything else could move forward. At 205
- What if solar technology could become part of the way we grow food? At PC Fruit in Sint-Truiden, Belgium, photovoltaic technology is being integrated directly into the cultivation of raspberries and blackberries. As part of a new agrivoltaics pilot project, existing rain covers above the fruit crops are partially replaced by glass-glass photovoltaic panels. The installation consists of 120 PV modules, divided into two different configurations: • 60 panels with 40% transparency and diffused glass • 60 panels with 50% transparency and
- On the Passeig de Gràcia, every façade gets scrutinised. By architects. By critics. By the city itself. Hines understood that when they acquired the former Banco Popular headquarters at number 17. The brief to G4 Group Architecture, Engineering and Design was clear: #LEED certification, serious energy performance, and a façade that belongs on one of Europe's most watched commercial boulevards. Not a building with solar panels. A building whose skin happens to be solar. Our ISSOL® Square modules went in as the outer layer of a
- Most solar projects find a place for the panels once the building is designed. This one worked the other way around. Jean-Didier Steenackers started with the solar resource - where the light falls on the corner of the Kruidtuinlaan and Rogierplein, how the surrounding towers cast their shadows through the day - and let the architecture follow. Laurent Ney's steel portals are where they are because the cable geometry demands it. The cables are pre-tensioned to a three-dimensional curve that handles wind, drains water and
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