Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Trina Solar to open Rotterdam warehouse

11/17/2008

ROTTERDAM: Changzhou, China-based Trina Solar plans to establish warehouse operations at the Port of Rotterdam in The Netherlands. Service is expected to begin in the fourth quarter of 2008, strengthening Trina Solar's distribution network and providing module supply functions to respond to customer delivery requests.

"We are pleased to announce the opening of our first warehouse in Europe, which will offer quality after-sales support to our customers and improve our module supply function. This demonstrates our continual commitment to provide excellent customer service and accessible and effective solutions to our customers," said Arturo Herrero, Trina Solar's Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

Trina Solar earlier this month selected San Francisco as the location for its North America base.
"This is an important step in our continuing commitment to deliver high quality Trina Solar PV modules to customers in the North American markets," said Mr. Jifan Gao, chairman and CEO of Trina Solar. "As our geographic footprint continues to expand, we remain committed to a location with tremendous talent to provide the support and services that have allowed us to create strong customer relationships throughout the world."

Trina Solar manufactures solar photovoltaic products, including ingots wafers and cells, and assembles photovoltaic modules.

Noritake to Set Up Solar Cell Material JV in China

(Source: Jiji Press English News Service)

Nagoya, Nov. 17 (Jiji Press)--Japanese ceramic ware maker Noritake Co. said Monday it will set up a joint venture in China to make paste for solar cell electrodes.

The venture, the first overseas base for Noritake's solar cell- related operations, will start production next April.

Annual output is estimated at 250 tons for 2011, with sales forecast at 4 billion yen.
The new firm, to be based in Jintan, Jiangsu Province, will be capitalized at 288 million yen. Noritake will have a 30 pct stake in the firm, while the rest will be held by a local solar cell maker.

Noritake aims to achieve annual sales of 10 billion yen from solar cell-related products in 2011.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Alashankou Wind Farm Project Starts

2008 November 16th, the first phase project of Alashankou Wind Farm Project got started.

Alashankou is a famous windy region in Xinjiang, China, and this wind farm project capacity is 200MW, the first phase project capacity is 49.5MW, 33 sets of 1.5MW wind turbines would be installed, and the investment will be about 520 million RMB, the first phase project will be completed by the end of October 2009.

Hefei Sungrow Power released converters for large scale wind turbine systems

Hefei Sungrow Power Company completed the development of converters for large scale wind turbine systems recently, and began mass production.

The converter is a key part of the wind turbine system, Sungrow Power's converters are able to replace the imported ones, and at present Sungrow Power are able to offer many converter models for different type wind turbine systems.

China Sunergy Tests Four New Solar Cell Production Lines

Nanjing China-based solar cell manufacturer China Sunergy (Nasdaq: CSUN) has begun testing four newly established selective emitter production lines. The total solar cell production capacity will reach 320 MW with these four production lines included.