Solyndra Announces Strategic Collaboration with Sika

The companies will work together to promote Sika's highly reflective roofing products together with Solyndra's rooftop photovoltaic systems.

Sika has a strong reputation as a supplier of roofing materials and photovoltaic systems worldwide and we are pleased to work together with them to develop a powerful combined offering for the challenging environment of the commercial rooftop solar market, said Clemens Jargon, Solyndra's President EMEA and Managing Director, Solyndra GmbH. Their knowledge of rooftops and materials combined with our expertise in solar systems will help us work together to generate the highest amount of energy from commercial and industrial rooftops.

We have found the lightweight, non-penetrating Solyndra system to be an excellent complement to our highly reflective rooftop materials and as interest in reflective, cool roofs grows in Europe, our two companies will work together to present a strong combined offering to our customers, said Heinz Meier, Sika's Corporate System Engineer Solar. Both companies have built their reputations by providing durable, lasting systems that will protect and generate power from rooftops for more than 20 years at the highest level of quality.

The agreement will initially focus on markets in Germany, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Spain, Slovenia and the Czech Republic, where Sika has an outstanding and market leading position providing roofing solutions including highly reflective membranes.