Spire Adds Factory Commander(R) Software Technology
Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR), a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules worldwide, today announced that it has joined with Wright Williams & Kelly, Inc. (WWK) in a strategic partnership to provide Spire clients with an unprecedented view of their production costs and return on investment utilizing Spire’s production lines.
“We offer our customers cost effective solar technology at both the cell and module level,” stated Spire’s Chairman and CEO, Roger G. Little. “By adding Factory Commander(R) we now have a world-class tool for performing sophisticated business analyses with our customers. Factory Commander allows Spire to address real world business complexities more accurately and quickly than ever before. In turn, this provides our customers a distinct advantage in getting the most profit from their investment.”
David Jimenez, WWK’s President commented, “We are pleased to be working with such a forward looking company as Spire. Rapid changes in the solar business, coupled with increased investments, have made the environment too complex for companies to adequately analyze their business opportunities and risks using homegrown spreadsheets. Spire’s move to integrate Factory Commander into their business practices will provide their customers with the most realistic view of projected operating costs and profitability, providing Spire and their clients a distinct competitive advantage.”
About Wright Williams & Kelly, Inc.
WWK provides software products and consulting services to assist its clients in making better business decisions. The focus is to assist clients in improving the productivity of their manufacturing operations while reducing their per-unit costs. WWK also provides strategic assistance by creating virtual representations of their future-factories to help them manage risk and maximize return on assets and shareholder equity. For corporate or product information, contact WWK at 925-399-6246 or visit www.wwk.com.
About Spire Corporation
Spire Corporation is a global solar company providing turnkey production lines and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic modules and cells worldwide. Spire Semiconductor provides processing technology for Spire’s silicon solar cell manufacturing lines and produces and sells custom gallium arsenide cells for solar concentrator systems. For corporate or product information, contact Spire Corporation, “The Turnkey Solar Factory Company,” at 781-275-6000, or visit www.spirecorp.com.
Certain matters described in this news release may be forward-looking statements subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in the forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risk of dependence on market growth, competition and dependence on government agencies and other third parties for funding contract research and services, as well as other factors described in the Company’s Form 10-K and other periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.