Trina Solar Joins Chinese Peers With Major Expansion Plans

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Trina Solar joins fellow Chinese solar giants Longi and Jinko Solar to announce major new expansion plans. In a recent announcement, Trina Solar said it will invest around CNY8.7 billion (USD1.2 billion) in a new plant and related facilities in China’s Sichuan province. The Changzhou headquartered firm has been a major player in the solar market since its inception in 1997, spreading into trackers and more in recent years.

To be located in the Shifang Economic Development Zone, the project is expected to be ready in twelve months with an annual production capacity of 25 gigawatts of monocrystalline bars.

Monocrystalline bars are made from high-purity silicon by repeated melting, crystallizing, and drawing, and have a high degree of purity and complete crystal structure. They are used in solar cell manufacturing.

The announcement by Trina Solar follows a recent announcements by Jinko solar, Longi and many other top Chinese manufacturers  that have announced major expansion plans in recent months. In fact, the broader solar supply chain in China has been stretched with new orders after a brief lull in 2022, with capacity expansions and fresh entrants entering the booming sector.

2023 has sparked a race across the globe for solar manufacturing, as plans across China, India, Europe, the US and even Australia and the middle east are pushed towards local manufacturing, China, as the global leader by a distance has seen its established firms move faster, thanks to their stronger local supply chains as well as experience with plants at scale, that few other firms globally have.

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