Shedding light on a pioneering solar firm
A Caloundra couple has quietly built a Moffat Beach industrial estate business into a world leader in systems that convert the sun’s power into electricity.
Extraordinarily when Klaus Langner first came to Australia from Germany his first job was digging holes on Hayman Island while his wife Sabine sang at the bar.
Now 23 years after launching Latronics, wealthy and quite easily able to retire on the profits of the solar inverter technology Klaus designed and the company now supplies across the globe, the couple instead believe they have other responsibilities.
That was something they recognised when they first hop-scotched through Australia’s national parks on $13 a day in the early 1980s. This was the country to raise children.
An electronics technician by trade, Klaus had a yearning to work in solar because it was an industry that he could see would last his lifetime. [...]
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