PV Hardware USA builds out Houston factory footprint to meet U.S. tracker demand

A solar equipment maker, PV Hardware USA, is expanding its manufacturing base in Houston to keep up with demand for solar trackers, the motorized structures that tilt solar panels to follow the sun across the sky. The company says its U.S. business has grown 400% over the past three years. It built its first Houston factory in 2024, expanded it to a 16 GW production capacity, and added a second facility in 2025. Together the two plants let the company make trackers entirely from domestic materials, sourcing steel in the U.S. and handling all the steel-shaping and fabrication work itself.

A new building finished in September lets the company pre-assemble tracker components at the factory instead of putting them together on site. The idea is to cut labor costs and construction time at solar project sites and make the finished structures more reliable, since more of the work happens under factory quality control rather than outdoors. The company also designs its trackers to hold up under a range of harsh weather, including desert heat, humid subtropical conditions, and ice storms in the Northeast.

The expansion will add three more production lines to the Houston site, bringing the total to seven and increasing manufacturing capacity by 60%. This is industry infrastructure news rather than something that changes homeowner rebates or costs directly, but it points to continued growth in large-scale solar development in the U.S., built increasingly with domestically made parts.