Technical Guides

Selection Guides and RFQ Checklists

Practical engineering and procurement guides for specifying precision metal materials before requesting a quotation.

Solar module manufacturers, procurement teams, process engineers, and quality engineers.

PV Ribbon Selection Guide for Solar Module Manufacturers

A practical guide to selecting PV ribbon, solar ribbon, tabbing wire and busbar ribbon for PERC, TOPCon, HJT, BC, MBB and SMBB modules.

Connector manufacturers, stamping suppliers, battery pack manufacturers, and procurement teams.

Learn how to specify copper strip by grade, thickness, width, temper, plating, burr, conductivity, packaging and inspection requirements.

Battery, electronics, shielding, thermal and precision converting teams.

How to specify copper foil thickness, width, surface, roughness, roll format, pinholes, packaging and inspection for industrial purchasing.

Motor, transformer, coil, EV, electronics and power component engineers.

A practical guide to specifying flat wire, rectangular wire and ribbon wire by material, geometry, corner radius, temper, surface and packaging.

Battery pack manufacturers, ESS suppliers, EV component engineers and purchasing teams.

How to select battery tabs, copper strip, aluminum strip, nickel strip, nickel clad copper and copper foil for EV and energy storage packs.

Cable, motor, transformer, EV and industrial procurement teams evaluating copper clad aluminum.

Understand copper clad aluminum conductivity, ampacity, copper ratio, resistance, diameter and application limits before substituting CCA for copper.

Terminal, connector, battery and electrical component buyers.

A practical RFQ checklist for tin plated copper strip, including base copper, temper, plating thickness, adhesion, solderability, burr and packaging.

PV module quality, process, purchasing and supplier quality teams.

Common PV ribbon and solar ribbon failure modes, causes, inspection points and prevention methods for module manufacturers.