How did Alafranga's partnership with Solplanet begin?

The partnership began in January 2021 with a single Turkish translation request from Solplanet's Netherlands office. Turkish was the entry point given Turkey's position as a major solar energy market. The programme expanded progressively into 20 languages over the following four years.

What types of content did Alafranga translate for Solplanet and AISWEI?

Alafranga delivered technical manual and installation guide translation (57 projects), software and application localisation including AiSWEICloud and Smart Energy System (26 projects), website localisation (26 projects), legal and warranty documentation (14 projects), and technical datasheets. Total volume exceeded 2.5 million words across 256 projects.

Can Alafranga handle large-scale multilingual solar energy documentation programmes?

Yes. The Solplanet and AISWEI programme demonstrates Alafranga's capacity to manage large multilingual documentation workflows — coordinating 256 projects across 20 languages over four years, with shared terminology governance, translation memory infrastructure, and consistent delivery across technical manuals, software strings, legal documents, and web content.

Solplanet & AISWEI — Multilingual Solar Energy Documentation

Q: Which languages were covered in the Solplanet localisation programme?

The programme covered 20 languages including German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Lithuanian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Greek, Turkish, Finnish, and Chinese to English and English to Chinese.

Case study: Solplanet / AISWEI
From a Single Turkish Request to a Four-Year, 20-Language European Localisation Programme

AISWEI Technology Co., Ltd. is a Chinese clean energy company headquartered in Shanghai, founded in 2009 as SMA Group's China subsidiary. Today an independent company, AISWEI ranks among the top six PV inverter manufacturers globally, with annual production capacity exceeding 3 GW across residential, commercial, and utility-scale solar systems.

Solplanet is AISWEI's international brand — the face of AISWEI's expansion into European, Australian, and Latin American markets. Solplanet operates European offices through AISWEI B.V., headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and serves installers, distributors, and energy companies across more than 30 countries.

▮How It Started

In early 2021, the Solplanet team in the Netherlands reached out to Alafranga Language Solutions with a single request: translate product documentation into Turkish.

Turkish was the entry point, a logical one, given Turkey's position as one of Europe's largest solar energy markets and a key distribution territory for Solplanet's inverter range.

That first project was delivered on time, with consistent terminology and structured file handling. A second request followed. Then a third, this time in multiple languages. Within months, what began as a one-language engagement had become a coordinated multilingual programme spanning Solplanet's entire European content operation.

▮Scope of Work

Over four years of continuous collaboration (January 2021 through late 2025) Alafranga delivered across five distinct content categories:

Technical manuals and installation guides
The largest category by volume. User manuals, quick installation guides, and operation documentation for Solplanet's full inverter range (including the ASW series, hybrid inverters, AI-Pro, AI-Energy, AI-Logger, Beast Pro, and Phoenix models) translated and updated across product versions and market releases. 57 projects in this category alone.
Software and application localisation
End-user applications (AiSWEICloud, Smart Energy System, AI-Charging) and engineer-facing monitoring and remote control platforms, localised for European markets with UI string management, version updates, and terminology consistency across releases. 26 projects.

Website localisation
Solplanet's public-facing web content localised into European languages, including product pages, landing pages, and market-specific adaptations. 26 projects.

Legal and compliance documents
Warranty terms and conditions, battery quality warranty documentation, distributor agreements, grid compliance declarations, and regulatory filings, translated for individual European jurisdictions. 14 projects.

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We work in Trados and memoQ, or in the client's own translation system, with client-specific translation memories and glossaries maintained across every project. AI drafts are produced with the whole document in view, not sentence by sentence through a machine translation API, so terminology, cross-references and tone hold from the first page to the last. We are not tied to one model: we test models on your own sample files. A named specialist reviews and approves every output.

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Technical Translation
Energy , manufacturing, machinery, products, devices & tools, electric & electronic systems, automation, agrotech, computers, safety, quality, compliance

Legal Translation
Legal contracts, standards, and laws

Medical Translation
Regulated, medical content

Web, App, Game Localization
Websites, software, games

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Media, AV, and timed-text localization

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▮Datasheets and marketing materials

Technical datasheets, product brochures, and market-specific collateral. 11 projects.

▮Languages

The programme covered 20+ languages across European and global markets, including: German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese (European and Brazilian), Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Lithuanian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Greek, Turkish — plus Chinese to English and English to Chinese for AISWEI's internal and global documentation flows.

▮Terminology and Translation Memory

From the outset, Alafranga built and maintained a dedicated translation memory and client-specific glossary for Solplanet. Every inverter model, every UI string, every warranty clause was added to a shared terminology base — updated with each project and applied consistently across all language pairs.

By the end of the programme, Alafranga held one of the most comprehensive Solplanet terminology assets outside of AISWEI's own internal systems. This infrastructure significantly reduced per-word costs on updated content and ensured cross-language consistency across a product range that was continuously evolving.

▮Scale

256 projects delivered. Approximately 2.5 million words in managed translation volume. 4 years of continuous collaboration. Requests from multiple departments and countries: Netherlands, China, Greece, Poland, Denmark, and others.

▮What This Programme Demonstrates

A Chinese manufacturer entering European markets faces a specific set of challenges: documentation written in Chinese engineering register, product lines evolving rapidly, multiple national markets with distinct regulatory and linguistic requirements, and teams in different countries placing requests independently.

Alafranga managed this not as a series of individual jobs, but as a coordinated language programme — with shared terminology governance, consistent file handling, and a team that understood both the technical content and the operational pressures of a fast-growing international product company.

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