Accelerating Solar Innovation Through Manufacturing Agility: From Decision to Production at Merlin Solar

Merlin Solar CEO, Kendall Combs, with the Philippines manufacturing team, marking the transition from decision to production through global collaboration.

Advancing new solar applications from concept to production requires tight coordination across engineering, manufacturing, and operations.

In April, Merlin Solar Technologies made a strategic decision to invest in a company-owned flexible module facility in Laguna, Philippines. By August, production was underway. This timeline reflects Merlin Solar’s ability to remain agile and flexible in a complex manufacturing environment while improving the performance, durability, and quality standards required for demanding real-world environments.

This milestone was recently celebrated with Merlin Solar’s international manufacturing team, highlighting the role of global collaboration in scaling advanced solar technology. Close alignment across engineering, operations, and production enables rapid execution while ensuring consistency and reliability across all manufacturing sites.

Merlin Solar’s approach—combining decisive action with disciplined execution—enables new applications to reach production more quickly, enabling the company to unlock new solutions for transportation, mobile power, and off-grid energy systems. This execution model helps customers deploy rugged, application-ready solar solutions without compromising product integrity.

As demand grows for flexible, lightweight, and durable solar technology worldwide, Merlin Solar continues to invest in processes and partnerships that translate innovation into deployable products.

This milestone represents both a production achievement and a scalable model for how Merlin Solar delivers proven, practical, and powerful solar solutions globally.