Rioglass Solar

Rioglass Solar is an international renewable energy company with more than 15 years of experience in the solar power industry. Rioglass Solar, founded in 2007, helps customers all over the world to capture and harness the sun’s energy for renewable electricity production through specialised O&M services, manufacturing of key components, and C&I PV generation.

Rioglass Solar is a multinational solar power and renewable energy technology manufacturer. We specialize in developing key optical components for concentrated solar power (CSP) and concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) applications, helping our customers all over the world capture and harness the sun’s energy to create solar power. Founded in 2007, Rioglass Solar is the global market leader in CSP technologies. With six million mirrors delivered worldwide and 20 years of experience in supplying receiver tubes, Rioglass Solar is the largest provider of CSP heat collector element (HCE) tubes and tempered glass mirrors in the world.

Our Factories

Headquartered in Brussels, Rioglass has offices in Spain, the U.S., South Africa, China, Germany, and Italy. Our factories are located in Spain, Middle East, Chile, China, the U.S., and South Africa.  All five of our factories are outfitted with the most advanced equipment and technology available with a high degree of automation, ensuring consistency and high quality.

Our Products

Rioglass Solar focuses on achieving continued technological advancement by combining cutting-edge technology with innovative designs and concepts to produce the most reliable products on the market. Our factories, equipped with advanced and automated production capacity, allow us to produce a large volume of uniform, quality products to our customers.

Our solar receivers feature:

• The lowest emission rates, at less than 9,5 percent
• The highest solar absorbance factor, at over 96.2 percent
• AR-coating, protecting them from energy reflection and providing extreme durability

Our solar mirrors feature:

• Tempered glass, increasing safety and dramatically reducing breakage rates, resulting in lower Cost of Ownership, enabling millions of dollars in savings over the operational solar field life
• The highest intercept factor performance
• A guarantee on reflectivity, at 94 percent or above, resulting in optimal output and value
• Top specifications for geometry and reflectivity
• A silvering process, which was developed in a joint venture with Samsung and CMS of Korea

In addition to our unmatched quality of products, Rioglass Solar is also committed to providing ongoing technological and excellent customer support, ensuring that our customers receive maximum efficiency and working lifespan from their equipment.

Since its inception in 2007, Rioglass Solar has been committed to facilitating positive advancement and change through technological innovation. Our guiding principles of energy efficiency, scaling, product design and manufacturing have helped us reach a global scale. Rioglass Solar is an independently operated company built upon a strong, profound foundation in glass processing with over 30 years in the automotive and construction industries.

Spearheading the Solar Market

With our in-depth experience, we honed our knowledge to successfully break into the solar components market, focusing on correcting the major problems of parabolic mirrors for concentrated solar power (CSP) use. Rioglass Solar created the tempered high precision parabolic mirror, which has now become the leading reference in the market. In only a short number of years, our cutting-edge products with excellent Cost of Ownership have been recognized and utilized by major players, positioning Rioglass Solar as the solar technology leader with the largest installed base of parabolic mirrors in the industry.

Expansion and Advancement

After undergoing a rapid expansion in Spain, we developed our new plant in Surprise, Arizona in 2011, and another in Upington, South Africa in 2013. This growth enabled our customers to become and remain competitive in local markets and support the industry in fulfilling local content requirements for public investments.  Our international expansion and dedication to the CSP market was taken further in 2013 with the acquisition of the receiver tube facilities in Israel, lending us the old, yet vivid Solel heritage known for shaping the CSP industry. Rioglass Solar has big plans for the future, including continued growth, discoveries, connections, and technological breakthroughs on a range of solar components and products. As a company, we are dedicated to consistently pushing for advancement to better enable our customers to efficiently capture, store, and utilize the sun’s energy.

If you’d like to learn more about Rioglass Solar’s products and technology, browse our site or contact us to speak to one of our representatives about how we can help power your project.

Since its inception in 2007, Rioglass Solar has been committed to facilitating positive advancement and change through technological innovation. Our guiding principles of energy efficiency, scaling, product design and manufacturing have helped us reach a global scale. Rioglass Solar is an independently operated company built upon a strong, profound foundation in glass processing with over 30 years in the automotive and construction industries.

Spearheading the Solar Market

With our in-depth experience, we honed our knowledge to successfully break into the solar components market, focusing on correcting the major problems of parabolic mirrors for concentrated solar power (CSP) use. Rioglass Solar created the tempered high precision parabolic mirror, which has now become the leading reference in the market. In only a short number of years, our cutting-edge products with excellent Cost of Ownership have been recognized and utilized by major players, positioning Rioglass Solar as the solar technology leader with the largest installed base of parabolic mirrors in the industry.

Expansion and Advancement

After undergoing a rapid expansion in Spain, we developed our new plant in Surprise, Arizona in 2011, and another in Upington, South Africa in 2013. This growth enabled our customers to become and remain competitive in local markets and support the industry in fulfilling local content requirements for public investments.  Our international expansion and dedication to the CSP market was taken further in 2013 with the acquisition of the receiver tube facilities in Israel, lending us the old, yet vivid Solel heritage known for shaping the CSP industry. Rioglass Solar has big plans for the future, including continued growth, discoveries, connections, and technological breakthroughs on a range of solar components and products. As a company, we are dedicated to consistently pushing for advancement to better enable our customers to efficiently capture, store, and utilize the sun’s energy.

If you’d like to learn more about Rioglass Solar’s products and technology, browse our site or contact us to speak to one of our representatives about how we can help power your project.

Our Receivers

• Over 20 years of in-field experience
• Lowest emission rate on or tubes: ε ≤ 9.5%
• High solar absorptance factor on or tubes: α ≥ 96,2%
• Excellent protective coating for high durability

Our Mirrors

• Tempered mirrors providing you much more value for money due to extremely low breakage rates
• Highest guarantee on reflectivity for our mirrors: >94,0% or higher, creating directly more output for your plant
• Highest intercept factor performance on or mirrors

And of course because of our excellent technological and customer support.

All enabling you to get most from your solar plant investment and supporting you to drive down cost and increase the Return on Investment of your plants.

At Rioglass Solar, quality is in our DNA. We have high standards for the quality of our products, our impact on the environment, our workplace safety, and our customer service. With a history of 30 years in the automotive and construction industries, quality, excellence and continuous improvement is part of our day-to-day practice. At our inception in 2007, Rioglass Solar set out solely to create and improve upon technologies used to help improve the environment. Our goal is and always has been to design tools to contribute to renewable energy projects, even in remote areas. In order to achieve our goal, we built state-of-the-art facilities and equipped them with the most advanced automated technologies available, enabling us to deliver uniform, quality products to consumers worldwide.

Process Management System

Being the first manufacturer of tempered glass mirrors for the thermo solar industry, Rioglass Solar’s main objective is to satisfy our customers while minimizing our impact on the environment and providing our employees with safe, comfortable working conditions. In order to continuously improve quality and performance for our customers, reduce our environmental impact, and maintain a high standard of safety, Rioglass Solar has implemented the following set of corporate procedures:

• An integrated set of quality requirements based on the management framework of certifiable management systems ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001
• An inventory procedure designed to control greenhouse gases (GHG)
• Periodical internal and external auditing of all systems
• Preventive maintenance strategies on all equipment
• R&D&E, as well as continuous product and production improvement systems aimed to use the most environmentally friendly materials and processes possible
• Energy savings programs
• A corporate social responsibility program
• Risk management programs for all production facilities

At Rioglass, quality is our top priority. Certified with ISO 9001, ISO 14000, and OHSAS 18001, we provide our customers with the best, most reliable productsand services possible, ensuring that every CSP and CPV project is a success.