Australian solar manufacturer Tindo was first established in 2011 before opening its current factory in Adelaide in 2022, by which time it had already produced 284,000 solar panels for both domestic use and export sales. Its current solar manufacturing plant is situated in the heart of Technology Park, a 65-hectare site in the northern part of Adelaide.
The company’s CEO, Richard Petterson, told pv magazine the factory’s current production line combines machinery, robotics, artificial intelligence and human expertise to produce solar panels.
He added that as Australia’s lone solar manufacturer, the business is focused on staying current with global technology innovations while ensuring its own capacity to improve and innovate.
“Tindo resources an internal design and engineering function which allows the company to remain at the forefront of technology developments and respond to users’ feedback,” he said. “To do this, we promote specific skills in management, production, finance, sales and marketing, distribution, installation and servicing.”
Tindo’s product portfolio of Australian-made solar panels features products tailored to both households and businesses, with all panels designed to withstand the extremes of Australia’s climate. The panels are powered by N-Type TOPCon technology integrated into laser-cut 16 busbar bifacial cells.
Its product range includes the Tindo Walara Series, a ninth generation of solar modules available in 440 W and a 475 W black panel option that uses black busbar technology. All of Tindo’s solar panels come with a 25-year warranty. According to data on the company’s website, Tindo solar panels fail once in every 200,000 times, compared to a global average of once in every 1,000.
“Every Tindo panel is engineered, manufactured and tested in Adelaide using top quality componentry, and processes validated against Australian conditions,” Petterson explained. “This approach delivers extraordinary field performance and durability that continues to set the benchmark for locally installed solar modules.”
The company undertakes a zero-defect manufacturing process that guarantees each panel undergoes testing at seven predetermined quality checkpoints. Petterson added that the company also develops its own sealing technology, allowing the panels to perform excellently in humid and salt-mist environments, making them popular exports to the Southeast Asian and South Pacific markets.
“Tindo panels are exported to Vietnam. They also power landing stations in the East Micronesia Cable (ESM) project in Nauru, and Tarawa in Kiribati,” Petterson explained. “The ESM is a 2,250 km undersea data cable that links Tarawa in Kiribati to Nauru and to Kosrae and Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. Pohnpei already has an international data connection. Tindo panels will be used at the Pacific Technical and Further Education (TAFE) school in Suva, Fiji, which is training people of the Pacific in solar-battery installations.”
Last year, Tindo was granted an AUD 34.5 million ($24.5 million) assistance package from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), allowing the company to expand its production facilities and workforce towards an increased capacity of 180 MW. Petterson said Tindo is now readying and expanding the facility to produce even higher-rated solar panels that will be powered by upsized 210R cells.
ARENA’s assistance package is also funding a feasibility study for a planned Gigafactory, a greenfield facility capable of producing up to 1 GW of high quality Australian-made panels per year that would employ more than 200 people. “This level of output will make Tindo a serious part of the Australian energy transition,” Petterson said.
Previous articles in pv magazine‘s new series on solar manufacturing facilities around the world covered SoliTek’s fully-automated line in Lithuania, United Solar’s polysilicon factory in Oman, Belga Solar’s module production facility in Belgium and Midsummer’s CIGS factory in Italy.
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