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solar spotlight: metal fabrication for solar structures

CRC Solar

Process/Technology: Custom steel roll forming Additional Features:
including solar racking components; post, purlins, • Engineering and design assistance;
channels, and angles
• Pre-punching and inline punching; and
Materials: Steel including: HRP&O, CRS, galvanized, • Bradbury machinery.
stainless, and aluminum
Sizing: 0.010" to 0.250" thickness: 1" to 24" widths
www.crcsolar.com
Roll Forming
Shapes/Structures: Customized shapes as well as
standard Zees, Cees, angles, and channels
Corporation
(a voestalpine company)

Process/Technology: 42 roll forming
lines; laser and dual laser welding;
high-frequency welding; laser cutting;
bending; post-dip galvanizing; TOX and
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Tog-L-Lok; rotary stitch; pre-, mid-, and
post-punching; and variable thickness
materials
Concept to Construction
Materials: CRS; HR; HRPO; pre-paint;
pre-galvanized aluminum; Titanium,

Inconel, and Hastelloy allows; stainless
steel; HSLA; as well as brass, bronze,
and copper
Solar developers and EPC contractors face complex challenges:
Sizing: 0.005" to 0.375" thickness, and completing projects in a dynamic political and regulatory
0.70" to 40" wide strip width
environment while adapting to compressed schedules and
Shapes/Structures: Cee’s, Zee’s,
Purlins, Struts, Sigma’s, and many other incorporating eiciencies to remain cost-competitive.
complex shapes
Additional Features:
At Ecology and Environment, Inc., our renewable energy experts
• Specializing in complex shapes and
hole patterns;
provide smart, practical solutions that help solar clients move
• Secondary kiting and special packaging
projects from concept to reality through careful planning and a
available; and
• Design consultation support services proactive approach. From initial siting studies through construction and mitigation monitoring, we draw
offered to develop new solutions, from our extensive experience to anticipate potential project delays and resolve issues early to reduce risk
improve existing ones, and to ensure
proper deployment in the ield.
and keep solar projects on track.

www.rfcorp.com

For help with your project, contact:
Nick Figone • (415) 398-5326 • [email protected]

RPM Rollformed Metal

Products Ltd.

Process/Technology: Rollformed steel
Materials: Steel: Galvanized CRS, HRPO,
galvalume, galvanneal and stainless,
aluminum, brass, zinc, and copper

Sizing: Material 0.008" min, 0.168" max
(future expansion: 0.250"); strip width 24";
length capabilities 12" min, 60' max

Shapes/Structures: Custom shapes, Z
purlins, C channels, U channels, punching,
notching, cut-to-length, pre-galvanized steel
up to 7 gauge
Additional Features:

• Complex contours;
• Pre-punching; and
ecology and
• Secondary operations. environment, inc.
www.rpmsteel.com

Global Environmental Specialists
www.ene.com

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