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ABOUT SOL
Founded in 1991, after six months of research and many visits to several
manufacturing facilities and suppliers,
SOL
began its production in
partnership with the European brands Condor, Comet and Nova, and
became autonomous in 1999 with its own testing and development centers.
From the beginning
SOL
has adopted the philosophy of utilizing certified
designs, manufactured with imported materials of the highest quality
by specialized and skilled-trained staff.
In 1995, the company moved to its current facility, occupying an area of
3.400 m² and has at its disposal a team of 140 employees, 22 of which are
pilots.
SOL
provides a comprehensive benefits package such as Health Plan,
Life Insurance, partnerships with pharmacies, transportation vouchers,
incentive getaways to employees who outperform each month, and
education grants.
At
SOL
, we take extreme measures to maintain our machinery and
manufacturing equipment current with the world market. This way, we
safeguard our accuracy everyday in the production process, control and
assuring the high quality of
SOL
brand and products throughout 65
countries around the world.
SOL
is one of the few paragliding enterprises worldwide to have its own
manufacturing facilities able to test every new model before making it
available to the market, which fosters the reliability necessary for excellent
performance when flying.
In early 2004
SOL
became certified by DHV, which is the most respected
regulating body of free-flying worldwide. Its mandate is to make sure its
members have the capacity to reproduce faithfully the certified equipment
on an industrial scale. Few facilities in the world possess this certification
in their manufacturing process.
SOL
was one of the firsts to obtain it.
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Safety:
The new product has to offer a level of safety that is at par or
better than the one it is replacing;
PHILOSOPHY
SOL
's philosophy is to introduce products that are considerably better than
current ones, in order to guarantee significant advancements in four
aspects:
Safety, Performance, Ease of Operation and Innovation.
The development process and design of every new product begins at the
computer. Drawing Software, 2D, 3D modeling and simulation are utilized
before the actual manufacturing of prototypes, in order to ensure greater
Innovation:
New products must display real benefits to the user, facilitating
free-flying, increased safety, or both.
Ease of Operation:
The new product must display higher levels and better
operational ease than the one it is replacing;
Performance:
The new product must perform better than the one it is
replacing;
accuracy in each new design.
It is part of our history the most important distance world records for
paragliding as well as national and worldschampionships won by pilots
using equipments developed and produced by SOL Paragliders.
