Sun King, the solar and appliances financing firm, is entering manufacuring and assembly, with its new manufacturing facility in Tatu City, in Kenya.
The facility, which marks Sun Kings first manufacturing operation in Africa, is 7,600-square-metre facility with an annual production capacity of up to 700,000 units, with scope for further expansion. The plant consolidates manufacturing, refurbishment, and high-capacity warehousing for Sun Kings products.
According to Patrick Walsh, CEO and Co-Founder, Sun King, At Sun King, were driven by a simple commitment: to deliver the best-quality products at prices that families and businesses in Kenya and across Africa can afford. This facility allows us to harness Kenyas talent and ingenuity to keep delivering on that promise.
Sun King aims to save more than USD $150 million in imports across Africa over five years, keeping more value and jobs within the Kenyan economy by localising manufacturing, shortening supply chains, and increase local value addition.
Sun King designs, installs, and finances a wide range of solar products and electronics, including smartphones and energy-efficient appliances such as televisions, fans, and freezers that work seamlessly with its solar systems. The launch takes on M-KOPA its competitor with a similar facility but mostly focused on smartphones. In October last year, M-KOPA announced it had locally assembled over 1.5 million smartphones in Kenya.
The Tatu City facility will start by producing Sun Kings televisions and smartphones, designed to run efficiently on the solar systems that the company delivers. Sun King will expand its product lines with time.
Opening our own manufacturing facility in Kenya gives us the scale to deliver more efficiently, the flexibility to innovate faster, and the foundation to grow a resilient manufacturing ecosystem here in Africa. For our customers, it means faster access to products and quality solutions made closer to home, said Kota Kojima, Chief Operating Officer, Sun King.
The facility currently employs 90 people, 60 percent men and 40 percent women, and is expected to expand to over 350 employees within five years.
Headquartered in Nairobi, Sun King, delivers more than 330,000 solar kits each month across Africa, up from just 10,000 in 2017. In Kenya alone, Sun Kings sales have grown dramatically to more than 100,000 solar kits per month today.
“This is very much in line with the Kenyan Governments agenda, such as the Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda, said Dr. Juma Mukhwana, Principal Secretary, State Department of Industry, Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment.
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