A Year of Settling in RMB
RMB receipts reached twenty-six percent of collections in Q1 this year, versus eight perce…
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Company updates, product news and industry insights from E21.
Solar Inverter Selection: Why We Only Carry Four Brands
We only sell Huawei, Sungrow, Growatt, and Solis. In 2019 we chased a cheap price on a sma…
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Year-End Review: What We Got Right and Wrong This Year
In 2021 revenue came back to ninety-two percent of 2019. Consolidation and early space boo…
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Our First Operator Training Course Drew Thirty-One Operators
In late November we ran our first operator training in Nairobi: two days, thirty-one opera…
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How to Judge Bucket Wear on a Used Wheel Loader
The bucket is a wheel loader's most expensive wear part; a new one costs twenty to thirty …
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No Containers, No Space, No People: The Three Shortages of 2021
A 40-foot container from Nansha to Mombasa went from US$1,800 to US$6,500. Empties are not…
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The Year Container Rates Went Insane — How We Got Through It
One container went from two thousand dollars to fifteen thousand. That year we changed how…
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For That Chinese New Year Shipment, We Camped at the Port for Eleven Days
Before Chinese New Year 2021, five machines waited eleven days at Nansha port for vessel s…
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With Every Trade Fair Canceled, We Took Machine Viewing Online
This year's Canton Fair moved online, so we built a livestream studio inside our Panyu war…
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