Category: Current news

In mid-April Solar Solve Marine were approached by Southampton Hydro Team, a group of students from the Universities of Southampton and Southampton Solent who are participating in the HydroContest, an international competition that takes place annually in Saint Tropez, France, which is designed to promote cooperation in the advancement of technology to reduce emissions caused […]

The word ‘Unlucky’ is generally associated with any Friday 13th but that certainly was not the case for Solar Solve UK on Friday 13th April this year.  That was the day the South Shields based manufacturer of the world famous SOLASOLV and ROLASOLV roller screens and blinds dispatched a consignment of 16 Type Approved SOLASAFE […]

Honorary Commodore in Chief of the RFA, HRH Prince Edward the Earl of Wessex KG, GCVO, was in Portsmouth recently to welcome RFA Tidespring to the operational fleet. With a displacement of 37,000 tonnes, the new ship, the first of the four biggest tankers to be purpose built for the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary, recently […]

South Shields based Solar Solve Marine continues to enjoy the good fortune it is recently experiencing regarding orders from the Far East, this time with an order that involves 13 newbuilds.. Hot on the heels of orders they won in January from their Osaka based World Wide Distributor, the new order is from Solar Solve’s […]

South Shields based Solar Solve Marine recently dispatched a consignment of their SOLASAFE® sunscreens to the crude oil tanker Polar Enterprise, a vessel that the company had previously supplied with their Type Approved products in 2006, as part of a major project for both Solar Solve and Polar Tankers. Over a period of 5 years […]

South Shields based Solar Solve Ltd trading as Solar Solve Marine enters the new year of 2018 on a very significant occasion. 30 years ago this month, in January 1988, the Lightfoot family business of Northern Window Blind Co., a partnership that was established in a shop in Sunderland in 1975, changed its name and […]