REC Presents Carbomat UK with prestigious 'PLATINUM PARTNER' Award

Leading International Solar Manufacturer, REC (Renewable Energy Corporation) today awarded UK distributor Carbomat with their prestigious “Platinum Partner “status.

The award was made during a ceremony at Carbomat UK’s Surrey headquarters. The attainment of Platinum Partner status recognises Carbomat’s strong sales growth, market development and the achievement of key partner objectives.  Carbomat are the first UK partner to receive REC Platinum Partner status in the UK.

Mr Eddy Mespreuve, founder & CEO of the Carbomat Group commented, “We are delighted to have achieved Platinum Partner status in the UK, it is recognition of our passion and determination to grow the REC brand in the UK market”.  

 (From left to right- Gaia Del Zoppo- REC Partner Program Manager, Pierre Cesbron-REC Business Development Manager, Neal Goddard - Carbomat UK Sales Manager, Koen Cassenaer - COO Carbomat Group, Eddy Mespreuve – CEO Carbomat Group, Catherine Ravinet - Sales Director Carbomat Group.)

“In a challenging marketplace, Carbomat and REC strive to provide customers with high quality, excellent yield performance and competitive prices”.

“The Carbomat group is now a Platinum Partner across all countries in which we operate, and further strengthens our long term commitment to REC and our many valued customers”.

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Carbomat UK Delivers First REC Solar Pro Training Event

Last week, the first group of Carbomat customers attended a jointly hosted REC Solar Professional training event held in London. The Solar Professional partner program is designed to give installers a deeper understanding of REC processes and products, provide design and installation support and access to a range of exclusive benefits. These include co-branded marketing, an additional 2 year warranty extension on REC products, access to state of the art project design software and service fees in the rare event of a site recall due to product failure.

The REC Solar Professional Programme has been running successfully in mainland Europe for some time but has recently been launched in the UK. We were delighted to host our first event, and had a great turnout of quality installation partners, already actively installing REC Peak Energy products.

To qualify for the program, installers had to be sponsored by Carbomat UK, agree to the REC Solar Professional program guidelines, to have demonstrated their expertise by having national accreditation and successful completion of REC certification training.

Attendees were given training and presentations from key REC staff, and sat an examination at the end of the process, which on completion enabled them to become certified. 

  

We believe that the program has real substance and adds value and benefits to REC, Carbomat, our installers and their customers alike. It is an aspirational program and only open to businesses that meet the entry criteria. Feedback from the day was extremely positive and the partners were eager to spread the word on their newly attained ‘Solar Pro’ status. 

Further Carbomat/REC Solar Pro events are planned and will run in conjunction with the existing Carbomat Academy training programmes. We also provide bespoke training sessions on our PV system solutions range and other renewable products we supply. For further information on Solar Pro or any other training events please get in contact on 01932 895040 or info@carbomat.co.uk

IT’S A WRAP ECOBUILD 2012

From the 20-22^nd of March Carbomat UK exhibited at the ECOBUILD fair at Excel London. It was great to see old and new faces within the PV sector. In addition to our class leading PV portfolio we were also promoting our brand new range of heat pumps from Euronom (watch out for more information on these coming soon to the blog!).

Check out the picture of our stand below

We released some great new domestic and commercial PV offers to coincide with the fair. Make sure you get in contact soon as they are for a limited time, and are deals you definitely don’t want to miss out on! See details below and get in contact by email: info@carbomat.co.uk or phone: 01932 895040 now!

The Carbomat team plan, prepare, build and break down our stand and all the main materials are re-used minimising cost and waste.

At ECOBUILD we were proud to launch our brand new 2012 catalogue which is packed full of handy references, photos and up to date information on our entire product range sold here at Carbomat UK.

 If you missed out on the opportunity to pick one up please email- info@carbomat.co.uk and we would be more than happy to send you a copy. Alternatively you can download the catalogue online at our website- www.carbomat.co.uk.

Thank you to everyone who paid us a visit, the show was a great solar success! 

It's Showtime

The time has arrived for the Carbomat team to come together for ecobuild 2012.  

Visitors to our stand can get the lowdown on our expanded product portfolio, which includes PV, and other emerging renewable solutions from current and new suppliers alike. These include PV modules / solutions from REC, ATERSA and BISOL, plus the new Q-PEAK module from Q-CELLS, and a brand new heat pump solution from EURONOM.

Carbomat UK can be found on STAND N3765 in the North Hall. So be sure to come along, meet the team and have a look around. You can also pick up a free copy of our new 2012 renewables catalogue.

Make sure to get your free entry tickets to the show from www.ecobuild.co.uk in advance, we look forward to seeing you there!

-The Carbomat Team

A NOVEMBER TO REMEMBER!

In November 2011 the team at Carbomat UK faced its most challenging period to date. This was as a result of the surprise DECC announcement informing the industry of a dramatic change to the FIT (feed in tariff), and that the 12^th of December 2011 would be the deadline for installations to qualify for the 43p tariff over 25 years. The rate thereafter would be lowered to 21p. The speed and depth of this reduction caused mayhem in the UK PV market as installers nationwide were overwhelmed with orders for installations of PV kits.

In the hours after the announcement the Carbomat team met and agreed on a simple strategic plan to allow us to provide maximum service and satisfaction to our customers. Our main objectives were to initially focus on supporting our existing customers and to take on new customers as and when we could confirm their requirements. We gave some priority to customers requiring full system components as opposed to potentially selling out of one area in our product range. This enabled us to manage our stock effectively whilst also ensuring our customers had enough kit to complete their clients’ installations. This put us in a good position as we were able to supply many more customers than we would have been able to manage had we not managed our stock throughout the 6 week period.  

At the height of demand the whole Carbomat UK team pulled together and worked centrally from our offices in Chertsey, Surrey. Our field sales team travelled from as far as Scotland to help with the huge number of calls, enquiries and orders. We were heavily supported by our colleagues across the Carbomat group in Belgium, who were able to use their experience and supplier contacts to help keep our UK warehouse supplied.

By keeping in close and constant contact with our warehouse, we were coping with up to ten times our normal volume of orders per day. The warehouse had to take on additional temporary staff to manage the continuous flow of orders. We managed to maintain a 2-5 day delivery window which we felt was a big achievement considering the immense work load.

During this period we are proud to say that all of our customers received product on time and were able to complete their installations prior to the 12^th of December, we received numerous mails and letters commending the team on their service and support.

We would like to thank all our customers for their patience, loyalty and support during this period. At the time of writing we face further uncertainty over the FIT and again face increased demand for product and information. Our customers can be assured Carbomat UK have a positive outlook on the PV and renewables market and are working even harder in 2012 to support our customers.

Members of the sales team hard at work at Carbomat UK in Chertsey, Surrey