Harnessing the power of the sun
Innovative, affordable Solar Water heating technology
Our Story
SolaForm are working with various partners on projects such as CE-SEA, SolaFin2Go and SolaNetwork. Links to these projects can be accessed from the main menu. SolaForm Ltd. is an Ulster University spinout company established in 2014. The company has secured significant funding to support trial, demonstration, monitoring and accreditation activities for their solar water heating technologies. The fundamental business objective of SolaForm Ltd. is to develop new market ready, customer focussed innovative solar based technologies and through a process of licensing and technology transfer, manage and support a ‘licensing out’ business model. The research and development and generation of near market innovative solar thermal technologies is central to the company’s business strategy. The SolaCatcher, based around the patented solar thermal diode technology, is SolaForm’s first commercial domestic solar water heating technology. SolaCatcher units have been deployed and trialled in a Northern Ireland community housing scheme and in Botswana in an off-grid solution as part of an Innovate UK funded research project in an rural village integrated solar thermal/electrification scheme.
Our Team

Dominic McLarnon
Director

Mervyn Smyth
Director
Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST)
The Centre for Sustainable Technologies undertakes multidisciplinary research to design, create, develop, improve, demonstrate and evaluate emerging, existing and alternative sustainable renewable energy, building design, construction materials, transport and environmental modification technologies.