Product Sustainability and Responsible Sourcing

Product Sustainability

As an American solar manufacturing pioneer, ARRAY has facilitated sustainability through its use of a traceable American supply chain and low-carbon American steel. Sustainability is embedded into each phase of our product lifecycle, from our partnerships with suppliers to our manufacturing practices. ARRAY’s product lifecycle includes four distinct phases:

Sourcing
We source our materials from suppliers that share our commitment to sustainability. We prefer to use recycled aluminum or recycled steel whenever possible to reduce our overall impact, and we identify opportunities to source components that are highly recyclable at the end of their useful life.
Manufacturing
In our manufacturing, we seek to minimize waste, enhance the sustainability of our operations, and ensure that our products are made responsibly. For example, we collect the aluminum shavings from our manufacturing operations to form condensed pucks of aluminum for more efficient recycling. Please see the environmental section for more information about how we incorporate sustainable practices into our manufacturing process.
Installation
During the installation phase, we offer training to customers on product installation to help ensure the quality and durability of our systems.
End of Life
In our installation manual, we provide our customers with guidance on proper disposal of the tracker system at the end of its 30-year lifecycle. Our customers have not retired any sites to date, but we will have more robust data about the rates of recyclability of our products when they reach the end of their useful life.

Supply Chain Management and Responsible Sourcing

We follow a thorough supplier vetting process that helps ensure compliance with all applicable laws. This process leads suppliers through several stages to evaluate their approach to capacity, strategic sourcing, supplier selection, procurement, inventory, engineering, and capability. Each step provides an opportunity for incremental reviews.Read more

Product Safety and Quality

We have established programs for Manufacturing Engineering and Packaging Engineering to drive product quality outcome improvements. We are underway with a layout transformation of our Albuquerque facility that includes the purchase of new, more energy efficient saws for production and major refurbishment of existing equipment to improve process control of our production processes. Read more

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Advancing Safety and Quality

Our quality objectives focus on risk reduction, opportunity enhancement and ensuring effective process control to prevent defects. In addition to maintaining our status as an ISO 9001 certified organization, we invested in product safety and quality by establishing the ARRAY Tech Research Center and hiring a Manufacturing Engineer and a Packaging Engineer. We are also members of the Asociación Técnica Española de Galvanización (ATEG).

The ARRAY Tech Research Center

We established the ARRAY Tech Research Center in 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona, to accelerate tracker innovation, strengthen customer collaboration and create a space dedicated to researching, developing, and field testing advanced solar tracker technology. This allows us to constantly improve our products and create solar trackers that are highly durable with a fully passive, failure-free wind-load mitigation system that do not rely on sensors or electricity.

ATEG Membership

To further ensure that our trackers can endure extreme weather events, and to prevent the metal components of our solar trackers from functionally deteriorating over time through corrosion, we are members of ATEG – Asociación Técnica Española de Galvanización. This organization, based in Spain, promotes technical research and the improvement of the environmental management of the anti-corrosion treatment process, which allows us to provide the highest confidence of quality.

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