Solar energy
Constellium is committed to supporting the building sector in developing renewable energy solutions that meet environmental challenges.
Serving an expanding market
We offer eco-friendly, energy-efficient and sustainable products for a variety of environmental applications. These include:
- Aluminium mirrors for solar reflection and concentration
- Aluminium substrates for selective absorber coating
- Aluminium profiles for frames and sub-frames
They are used in a number of end products:
- Collectors for domestic water and space heating
- Concentrating solar power (CSP) troughs industrial process for heating and solar air conditioning for low and middle temperatures CSP Fresnel as secondary mirrors
- Concentrating photovoltaic applications
- Photovoltaic and thermal panels for buildings
Sheets
As the world’s leading supplier of rolled aluminium sheets with advanced functional surfaces (such as bright finish and pretreated matte surfaces), we are the principal manufacturer of aluminium sheet solutions for demanding solar applications.
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Extrusions
We offer a wide range of customized profiles that are used to build frames for solar thermal and photovoltaic panels - heating water or turning solar energy into electricity. The assembled panels can be fixed on the roofs of buildings - houses and offices - or integrated into building facades. We also supply high-dissipation heat sinks for power converters.
Find out more about Constellium’s products and solutions for the solar energy market
Key-fact
Constellium is the world’s leading supplier of aluminium frames for solar panels and Number 1 supplier of aluminium sheets and frames for hot water collectors.