Kingspan Renewables extends warranty to 20 years

The first European manufacturer to offer 20 year warranty on its solar evacuated tubes

World-leaders in solar technology, Kingspan Renewables, underlines its confidence in the quality of its new production facility by offering a 20 year warranty* for the first time. It’s the first renewables company in Europe to deliver this guarantee on the durability of its evacuated tubes and highlights the commitment of the organisation, which recently opened its new state-of-the-art evacuated tube manufacturing plant in Portadown, Northern Ireland, to keep delivering award-winning performance.

While other competitor products may work quite well for the first few years, the materials used, result in deterioration of performance year after year. This is due to factors like unreliable seals, poor manifold quality or the use of reflectors that degrade over time. Kingspan Renewables, however, puts the emphasis on premium raw materials and production technology and is prepared to back this up with a warranty to match.

The new production facility doubles Kingspan Renewables’ production capacity and is now recognised as the most modern facility of its kind in Europe. This highly sophisticated process combines leading-edge machinery and control systems to produce its Thermomax tubes to an even higher standard than before.

Shane Caher, Operations Director of Kingspan Renewables commented: “Since acquiring the Thermomax business in 2007 we had to overcome several challenges. The main was to bring our manufacturing technology to 21st century standards of quality, performance and reliability, while continuing to improve the products. But with the opening of our new and unique computerised facility, with sophisticated automated production, we now have the confidence to extend our warranty of our evacuated tubes to 20 years. We are fully convinced that the Thermomax products will last much longer than this.”

Mr Caher adds: “As the European Union is increasingly focussed on ‘performance over life’ standards, Kingspan Renewables is leading the way in ensuring that our Thermomax tubes and our solar hot water cylinders have a minimum warranty of 20 years. This is real ‘performance over life’.”

Kingspan Solar, which is a unit of Kingspan Renewables, is part of Kingspan plc the Irish-based building materials group famous for its focus on sustainable and renewable building technologies.

* Effective form 1st July 2010 and standard terms and conditions apply.