Category: Chairman’s Blog

As this is the 30th Anniversary year of Solar Solve Marine and the creation of its first 3 products, SOLAROLA® , SOLASAFE® and DIMMLITE®, which were specially designed for installation at the windows of ships and other marine vessels, I am spending some time researching significant jobs we have completed throughout the 3 decades.  The […]

It is no secret within the global marine industry that we are still in the throes of a substantial downturn in business that began even before the price of oil started to drop significantly from June 2014. Somehow, fortunately, the majority of companies seem to be managing to survive although there have been many casualties […]

Whilst doing some recent research about container vessels I came across what seemed like hundreds of photos of them on the Internet and was very disturbed to see amongst them quite a lot of casualties. There were photos where containers had broken free, moved over precariously to one side or had totally collapsed under the […]

Now that the start date for the BREXIT negotiations has been confirmed, it started me thinking about what new trading opportunities could be created for Great Britain and in particular Solar Solve. We mainly supply our roller sunscreens and window shades to the marine industry, with very little going to land-locked countries. Of those countries […]

We all know about ‘One man’s meat being another man’s poison,’ and there will be many people losing out as a result of the significant weakness in the GB Pound. However, for those of us in the UK who export, it is great news and very meaty. Having won more than 15 awards for exports […]

I recently decided to collate and analyse the comments, observations and commendations we have received from customers over the last couple of years about Solar Solve’s SOLASOLV range of anti-glare window shades for marine windows, as our friends in the USA tend to call them. Of course there are also comments about our flame retardant […]