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MELCloud: a multilingual Statamic site for Mitsubishi Electric

One Statamic install running Mitsubishi Electric's MELCloud sites across European markets and languages, on Azure with automated accessibility tests.

Client
Mitsubishi Electric
Year
2023 to now
Services
Statamic development, Laravel development, Design systems, Support and hosting
Partner
RJC Digital
The MELCloud home page, showing the headline "Connecting our world with cloud-based controls" beside photos of an office and a phone running the app

The problem

MELCloud is Mitsubishi Electric’s cloud platform for controlling heating, cooling and ventilation, from a single home to a commercial building. It’s sold across Europe, so the website that explains it has to speak to each market in its own language, with the right products, support documents and contact details for that country.

Before this build we’d been working with Mitsubishi Electric since 2022, making the graphical components for their own platform, with RJC Digital. When they needed a new multilingual website, that was the natural next step.

What we built

The site runs on Statamic, on top of Laravel, as one install that serves every country and language version. Editors choose which countries and languages a component shows for, so a market can have the content that applies to it without a separate copy of the site to look after. Pages are generated ahead of time and served through a CDN and web application firewall, which keeps them quick and keeps the CMS itself out of public reach.

It’s hosted in containers on Azure, with media in Azure Blob storage and deployments through Azure Pipelines. Playwright and axe tests run against the site to catch accessibility problems before they reach visitors.

The MELCloud Service Health page, showing MELCloud Commercial and MELCloud Home both operational
The Platform Status page, which shows whether MELCloud Home and Commercial are up.

We’ve since added a support-document hub, a Platform Status page and an FAQ module that editors can place on any page. The site was penetration tested in December 2023.

What’s happened since

The build began in July 2023 and we’re still working on it, over three years on. Mitsubishi Electric kept us on for related work, including an ErP calculator for HVAC energy labels built in Laravel and a library of web components for their Blazor team to use in the MELCloud Home app.

We’ve been impressed by how easy it is to use and its security, plus the quality of the build has been excellent.

Sebastien Desmottes, Mitsubishi Electric UK

Who else was involved

We work on this for Mitsubishi Electric through RJC Digital, who look after the client relationship. If you’re weighing up Statamic for a multi-country site, our Statamic development page covers how we approach it.