For manufacturers and exporters
AFRO-ENERGY is the solar brand of KATALUXE SARL U, a Togolese company registered in Lomé, in the port zone. We import complete kits from the factory, sell them to households and landlords in Togo and to the Togolese diaspora, and install them through certified local partners. This page tells you exactly what we buy, what we require and how to reach us, so that a first email is worth writing.
Write to [email protected]Who you are dealing with
RCCM TG-LFW-01-2025-B13-01323, NIF 1002042323, port zone, Lomé, Togo. AFRO-ENERGY is our retail brand. We import in our own name and clear customs in our own name.
Households across Togo, landlords, small businesses, and Togolese families abroad who equip the family house. We are the last link, not a trading company reselling your quotation.
All supplier business is handled by email at [email protected]. We do not hold commercial discussions by phone, video call or messaging app, and we do not sign anything before a factory visit.
The Port of Lomé is the leading container hub of West Africa and serves Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger. A supplier who works with us is one step from that corridor.
What we buy
Our range is sized for a climate where every bedroom has an air conditioner. The whole range runs at 48 V so that one battery model, one spare-parts kit and one installer training serve everything.
| Kit | Inverter | Battery | Modules |
|---|---|---|---|
| S — one bedroom | 6 kW hybrid, 48 V | 5.12 kWh LiFePO4 | 4 × 550 W |
| M — two bedrooms | 6 kW hybrid, 48 V | 10.24 kWh | 8 × 550 W |
| L — three bedrooms | 6 kW hybrid, 48 V | 15.36 kWh | 12 × 550 W |
| XL — four bedrooms | 10 kW hybrid, 48 V | 20.48 kWh | 15 × 550 W |
| XXL — six bedrooms or small business | 2 × 6.5 kW in parallel, 48 V | 30.72 kWh | 24 × 550 W |
Modules 550 to 660 W, N-type TOPCon preferred. Hybrid inverters 230 V / 50 Hz, MPPT, grid and generator input, parallel capability on the 6.5 kW rating. Batteries wall-mounted or rack LiFePO4, CAN and RS485. We also buy mounting structure and cabling, priced item by item, and we are opening a second line of portable power stations of 0.5 to 2 kWh.
Volumes and calendar
Capped at USD 20,000 FOB, everything included — typically ten kits mixed across the two smallest sizes. It exists to prove the product with real customers in Togo.
One to two 40' HQ containers a year, growing. For modules alone that is 720 to 1,200 pieces, roughly 0.4 to 0.7 MW.
We are comparing quotations now and we conclude at the Canton Fair, phase 1, in October 2027, followed by a visit to the factory of the supplier we retain.
No sample, no deposit and no exclusivity is agreed before the factory visit. A quotation sent today is compared, recorded and refreshed quarterly until then.
Our floor
These are not negotiating points. An offer that is missing them cannot be placed against the others, and we will ask you for them anyway.
Business licence, factory address, and a live video tour or an on-site visit. We check. A trading company presented as a manufacturer adds 10 to 30 % for nothing.
IEC 62619 and UN38.3 issued for the assembled battery packs, not for the cells alone. IEC 61215 and 61730 for modules. CE and IEC 62109 for inverters.
Ten years written, or a priced extension to ten years. Tell us who handles a claim for a buyer in West Africa, and from where. Five years with no route to service is not an answer.
Cell brand and date code, fixable in the order. Written confirmation that packs in one order come from a single production batch, and that same-batch stock can be held for twelve months.
Net and gross weight, carton dimensions, units per pallet. Without them no freight quotation to Lomé is comparable, and freight decides our selling price.
We know a twelve-month validity is not granted. Tell us what your price is indexed on, and reissue it quarterly. A MOQ that can be met on the total order rather than per model is a strong advantage.
Design — a knock-out criterion
Our kits sell for the equivalent of USD 2,600 to 15,000, and the equipment hangs in a corridor, a living room or a shop that people walk past every day. The customer photographs it, visitors look at it, and that photograph makes the next sale. So the reference is not the grey workshop box with exposed screws we are usually offered: it is the level of finish reached today by EcoFlow (PowerOcean, DELTA), Anker SOLIX (X1, Solarbank), Huawei LUNA2000, Sigenergy SigenStor, BYD, and Growatt on its recent series. Those products prove that a home battery can look like consumer electronics rather than a switchboard cabinet.
One continuous shell, chamfered edges or soft radii, panels meeting without a step. No screw, rivet or hinge visible on the front face. Fixings go on the sides, at the back, or under a cover.
Warm white, graphite or anthracite, in a matte or micro-textured finish. No bare painted sheet metal that marks on first contact, no glossy plastic that holds fingerprints. An anodised aluminium frame is a visible plus.
A thin LED bar or a single status dot, in neutral light. No blinking red and green diodes. If there is a display it must be black when off, under flush glass, not a recessed segment readout.
Vents underneath or at the back, never on the front. Cable entries at the bottom, glands supplied, a cover over the terminals, a rear channel provided. An installation whose wiring shows is an installation the customer complains about.
Modules that stack on a shared plinth, aligned seams, the same width from one capacity to the next — the LUNA2000 or SigenStor principle. Depth at the wall 200 mm or less, bracket supplied, no feet or trolley on a domestic model.
The inverter and the battery are seen together: same colour, same finish, aligned widths. Give us the noise level in decibels at one metre, at half load — a whining fan is a knock-out in a bedroom corridor.
What we expect in your reply: real photographs of the unit in production today — front, side, and at least one mounted on a wall — a dimensioned drawing, the colour available and the noise level. If your current enclosure does not reach this standard, say so plainly and price tier 3 below: shell and colour in our identity, with the tooling cost and the minimum quantity. A clear answer is worth more to us than a flattering rendering.
Private label
Our customers buy AFRO-ENERGY. We are not asking you to change your product, we are asking what carries our name and at what quantity. Quote the three tiers separately.
Our logo on the front of the enclosure, durable label or silk-screen, our logo on the shipping carton, and a neutral user manual. Your model number and your certificates stay untouched. We supply the artwork.
Silk-screened branding, printed colour box, and the user manual in French, which is the language of our market.
Enclosure colour, start-up screen and packaging fully in our identity. Tell us the minimum quantity and the tooling cost, so we know what we are working towards.
The minimum quantity and the surcharge for each tier, in writing, and confirmation that private labelling does not void the certificates or the warranty.
How to reach us
Write to [email protected] in English or French. Include these and your offer goes straight into our comparison grid.
We do not hold commercial discussions by telephone or messaging app, we do not send our purchase volumes before receiving a price, and we accept banking details only from a company domain, confirmed against the business licence. Every quotation received is compared on the same grid and refreshed quarterly until the Canton Fair of October 2027.
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