Sitegeist Drives Solar Leader’s Business Pivot with Flexible, Scalable TYPO3 Solution

Meyer Burger, a leader in solar cell and module manufacturing, faced a critical challenge in 2021: they were pivoting from being a supplier to a direct manufacturer in the solar industry. This shift required a dynamic online presence that could effectively represent their new business model.

Partnering with TYPO3 experts sitegeist media solutions, Meyer Burger launched a sleek, powerful new website on an ambitious five-month timeline. The new site benefited from TYPO3’s multisite flexibility, seamless integrations, and multilingual capabilities, helping Meyer Burger position themselves as a leading European solar manufacturer.

Facing a five-month deadline, Meyer Burger turned to leading TYPO3 specialist sitegeist. sitegeist’s specialization in rapidly delivering high-performance websites coupled with integrating external ERPs and SAP systems for B2B communication were critical for Meyer Burger’s choice. They knew they could trust them even with a tight timeframe.

With a lead time much shorter than the typical one-year enterprise website build, sitegeist utilized TYPO3’s content management system and its agile capabilities to construct Meyer Burger’s website with the following features:

To scale Meyer Burger’s website rapidly across new markets, sitegeist tapped into TYPO3’s multilingual features. Beyond translating content, TYPO3 provides robust capabilities to manage global editorial workflows, optimize for local search engines, facilitate ongoing localization, and flexibly grow the website internationally over time. Key multilingual functions include:

sitegeist delivered Meyer Burger’s global website in just five months, while jobs of this nature typically span at least a year. The accelerated timeline was enabled by TYPO3’s strengths, including:

• Streamlined multilingual translation flows
• Robust back-end ERP feature integration
• Structured authoring environments with advanced permission controls

With their new site up and running, Meyer Burger could accurately represent the company’s manufacturing transformation and begin scaling rapidly to new markets.